Robert Quine

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

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

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.

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.

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