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Robert Quine

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I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.


— Robert Quine


#i #jackson #kenny #lewis #like

I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's the product of a lot of fighting.


— Robert Quine


#fighting #generation #going #headphones #holds

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


— Robert Quine


#hit #i #just #me #rock

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


— Robert Quine


#early #experience #i #into #lessons

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


— Robert Quine


#august #bar #failing #here #i

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


— Robert Quine


#develop #i #listening #miles #miles davis

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


— Robert Quine


#inherently #like #makes #mathematics #me

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


— Robert Quine


#familiar #i #nasty #songs #stones






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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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