Robert Quine

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

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.

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

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

When I have to compete with John Coltrane and Miles Davis and Louie Armstrong on iTunes, which I'm doing now, that's a problem. That means that jazz is not being heard by younger audiences.