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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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