By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.
From Robert Quine
The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.
Reading music is something that's inherently hateful to me. It makes music like mathematics.
My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71.
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.
I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.
I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.
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.
I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell.
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