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
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.
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To me, the positive thing about it was we were pulling out these old influences like the Velvet Underground and the Stooges that were gone.
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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.
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By '65, I worked myself into hearing a little better and I was up to Jimmy Raney. I had a pretty good ear for it but I've never been able to play it.
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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.
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I had a band in St. Louis. By then, things that influenced me were the first Stones albums, the first Byrds albums, later the Velvet Underground.
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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.
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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.
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My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
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I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
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I never really followed grunge.
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After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.
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Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
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The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.