Robert Quine Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.”
-- Robert Quine

#Emotional Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Howlin Wolf Quotes
“Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.”
-- Robert Quine

#New York Quotes #August Quotes #People Quotes
“I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.”
-- Robert Quine

#Rocks Quotes #Rock And Roll Quotes
“I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.”
-- Robert Quine

#Fighting Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Guitar Quotes
“I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.”
-- Robert Quine

#Stuff Quotes #Funky Quotes #Kenny Quotes
“From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.”
-- Robert Quine

#Home Quotes #Play Quotes
“Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.”
-- Robert Quine

#Four Quotes #Records Quotes #Genes Quotes
“By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.”
-- Robert Quine

#Summer Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Sick Quotes
“By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.”
-- Robert Quine

#Punk Quotes #Standards Quotes #Primitive Quotes
“I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.”
-- Robert Quine

#Suicide Quotes #Saws Quotes
“The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.”
-- Robert Quine

#Song Quotes #Ugly Quotes #Stones Quotes
“Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.”
-- Robert Quine

#Reading Quotes #Hateful Quotes #Mathematics Quotes
“After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.”
-- Robert Quine

#Jazz Quotes #Exhausted Quotes
“I never really followed grunge.”
-- Robert Quine

#Grunge Quotes
“I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.”
-- Robert Quine

#Piano Quotes #Lessons Quotes #Piano Lesson Quotes
“My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.”
-- Robert Quine

#Listening Quotes #Stuff Quotes #Miles Quotes

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