31 Quotes by Robert Quine

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

I never really followed grunge.

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

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

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

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

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.