Top 18 Quotes by Robert Quine

I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

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

I never really followed grunge.

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.

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

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 saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

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

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