Top 83 Quotes & Sayings by Warren Zevon

I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.

Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

I don't like piano solos.

I have no guitar technique.

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

Dylan can do no wrong.

I wish I sang better.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

Enjoy every sandwich.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

Piano is like drudgery.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.

You put more value on every minute...You know I always kinda thought I did that. I really always enjoyed myself. But it's more valuable now. You're reminded to enjoy every sandwich and every minute.

And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

don't let us get sick, don't let us get old, don't let us get stupid, alright? just make us be brave, and make us play nice, and let us be together tonight.

You can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream

Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.

People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.

I read things I didn't know I'd done, It sounded like a lot of fun.

To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life." My message as a person who evidently doens't have much more planned is the same. It's the only message I ever thought art had any business having.

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.