Robert Quine Quotes

#1. 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

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

Robert Quine

#3. My face is shaped like a face, and my body like a body, but my thoughts are very unusual. Piano from the third floor. Daisies on a roof.

R.X. Bird

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

Robert Quine

#5. Killian wasn't dead. He just dressed like it.

Stacey Kade

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

Robert Quine

#7. What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#8. No milk, gone out for breakfast, then to Hamleys, want to beat crowds. PS Know who killed Quine.

Robert Galbraith

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

Robert Quine

#10. 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

#11. Magical properties were attributed to it. Its brew was sipped on the steps of sacrificial temples; its ecstasies were fierce and terrible. Is this what he fears? Corruption by pleasure, the subtle transubstantiation of the flesh into a vessel for debauch?

Joanne Harris

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

Robert Quine

#13. You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

Mark Twain

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

Robert Quine

#15. To just tell a story from beginning, middle and end doesn't motivate me that much.

Michael Mann

#16. I never really followed grunge.

Robert Quine

#17. 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

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

Robert Quine

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

Robert Quine

#20. I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.

Joy Fielding

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

Robert Quine

#22. Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.

Seth

#23. If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

Sharon Stone

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

Robert Quine

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

Robert Quine

#26. The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Robert Quine