“By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.”
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Famous Robert Quine Quotes
“Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.”
“From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.”
“I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.”
“I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.”
“My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.”
“I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.”
“Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.”
“The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.”