31 Quotes by Robert Quine

To me, the positive thing about it was we were pulling out these old influences like the Velvet Underground and the Stooges that were gone.

I took guitar lessons in '58. To find someone to teach you to play rock and roll then was rough. I had to figure it out on my own.

I had a band in St. Louis. By then, things that influenced me were the first Stones albums, the first Byrds albums, later the Velvet Underground.

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 quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.

I had been brainwashed by my parents and society that to be a musician was unacceptable but by then I finally decided to at least give it a try.

But I don't have the discipline to play jazz myself. At the time though, I was stupid enough to think I could be a jazz musician.

By '65, I worked myself into hearing a little better and I was up to Jimmy Raney. I had a pretty good ear for it but I've never been able to play it.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.