Robert Quine
Robert Quine
Robert Wolfe Quinewas an American guitarist, known for his innovative guitar solos...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth30 December 1942
CountryUnited States of America
figure guitar lessons rock roll teach took
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.
decided finally musician parents society
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.
discipline jazz stupid time
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.
emotional stuff howlin-wolf
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.
new-york august people
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
rock-and-roll rocks transformed
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
stuff funky kenny
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
home play
From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.
records four genes
Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.
summer jobs sick
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.
punk standards primitive
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
reading hateful mathematics
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
jazz exhausted
After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
grunge
I never really followed grunge.