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Robert Quine Quotes

American - Musician | December 30, 1942 - May 31, 2004

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

Ugly Doing Nasty Stones Songs Were

Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.

Music Mathematics Me Reading Hateful

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

Listening Through Playing Started

Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.

New York People New Some People Bar

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.

Wolf You Blues Understand Emotional

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Experience Early Piano Lessons Quite

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

Me Rock And Roll Rock Roll Just Hit

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.

Think Generation Fighting You Listen

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

Started Off Like Stuff Funky Really

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Suicide Pretty Saw Horrifying

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.

Good Best Feel Bad Early Rock

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.

Job Voice Play Tax Village Quit

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