Robert Quine

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

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.

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.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.