Robert Quine

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

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(10 votes)   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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(17 votes)   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.

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(16 votes)   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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(16 votes)   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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(15 votes)   By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

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(15 votes)   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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(15 votes)   The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

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(14 votes)   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.

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(14 votes)   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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(13 votes)   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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(13 votes)   I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

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(12 votes)   After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

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(12 votes)   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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(12 votes)   I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.

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