Robert Quine Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.”

“After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.”

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

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

“I never really followed grunge.”

“Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.”