Robert Quine

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

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

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 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.

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.