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Robert Quine

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


— Robert Quine


#many #playing #primitive #punk #standards

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.


— Robert Quine


#blues #darker #emotional #factor #just

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


— Robert Quine


#blues #exhausted #got #i #into

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.


— Robert Quine


#bookstore #brooklyn #drank #got #i

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


— Robert Quine


#by the time #even #five #four #gene

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


— Robert Quine


#i #myself #never #play #played

I never really followed grunge.


— Robert Quine


#grunge #i #never #really

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.


— Robert Quine


#answered #auditioning #band #bands #days

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.


— Robert Quine


#bad #because #been #best #buddy

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


— Robert Quine


#i #pretty #saw #suicide






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Someday Quine will be recognized for the pivotal figure that he is on his instrument — he is the first guitarist to take the breakthroughs of early Lou Reed and James Williamson and work through them to a new individual vocabulary driven into odd places by obsessive attention to On the Corner-era Miles Davis. Robert Wolfe Quine (December 30 1942 – May 31 2004) was an American guitarist known for his innovative guitar solos. Quine was a nephew of the philosopher W.

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