Robert Quine Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Robert Quine Quotes and Sayings


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    After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    I never really followed grunge. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    I really feel fortunate to have been around then because there have been good and bad years in rock but the best years were '55 to early '61. I got to see Buddy Holly and everybody else. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF
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    The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. Robert Quine | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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