I started off with the really funky stuff like ramsey lewis, milt jackson, kenny burrell. — Robert Quine
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early ’50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience. — Robert Quine
By many peoples’ standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I’m a virtuoso. — Robert Quine
Reading music is something that’s inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. — Robert Quine
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in new york and moved here in august ’71. — Robert Quine