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 Read Quote
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August ’71. Robert Quine Read Quote
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to. Robert Quine Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Reading music is something that’s inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics. Robert Quine Read Quote
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 Read Quote