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

- Robert Quine

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

- Robert Quine

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

- Robert Quine

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

- Robert Quine

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 …

- Robert Quine

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

- Robert Quine

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

- Robert Quine

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

- Robert Quine

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

- Robert Quine