Warren Zevon Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions. — Warren Zevon

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall. — Warren Zevon

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

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

I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead. — Warren Zevon

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral. — Warren Zevon

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

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid. — 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. — Warren Zevon

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. — Warren Zevon

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

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. — Warren Zevon

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. — Warren Zevon

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

Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again. — Warren Zevon

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

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret. — Warren Zevon

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

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

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

It used to seem to me that my life ran on too fast,
and I had to take it slowly just to make the good parts last
But when you're born to run it's so hard to just slow down,
so don't be surprised to see me back in that bright part of town — Warren Zevon

We buy books because we believe we are buying the time to read them. — Warren Zevon

The days slide by
Should have done, should have done, we all sigh ... — Warren Zevon

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies ... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this. — Warren Zevon

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

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

I'll sleep when I'm dead. — Warren Zevon

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

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
[Inside Out (VH1)] — Warren Zevon

I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all. — Warren Zevon

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. — Warren Zevon

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. — Warren Zevon

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

Piano is like drudgery. — Warren Zevon

Send lawyers, guns and money; the shit has hit the fan. — Warren Zevon

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

You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things. — Warren Zevon

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

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

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand — Warren Zevon

I have no guitar technique. — Warren Zevon

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. — Warren Zevon

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

I don't get depressed and I don't get bored — Warren Zevon

Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home. — Warren Zevon

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. — Warren Zevon

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

Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned. — Warren Zevon

Dylan can do no wrong. — Warren Zevon

Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase. — Warren Zevon

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

I was born to rock the boat. Some may sink, but we may float. — Warren Zevon

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

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

You used to be the best to make life be real to me,
and I hope that you're still out there and you're like you used to be — Warren Zevon

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

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

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me. — Warren Zevon

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder. — Warren Zevon

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. — Warren Zevon

I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity. — Warren Zevon

Disorder in the house
The doors are coming off the hinges
The earth will open and swallow up the real estate
I just got my paycheck
I'm gonna paint the whole town grey
Whether it's a night in Paris or a Fresno matinee
It's the home of the brave and the land of the free
Where the less you know the better off you'll be — Warren Zevon

Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this. — Warren Zevon

I'm not a big jazz fan. — Warren Zevon

At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life. — Warren Zevon

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. — Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are. — Warren Zevon

It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world. — Warren Zevon

We made mad love
shadow love
random love
and abandoned love.
Accidentally like a martyr.
The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder. — Warren Zevon

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

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

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

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

Cachet - isn't that like panache, but sitting down? — Warren Zevon

I don't like piano solos. — Warren Zevon

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. — Warren Zevon

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

Enjoy every sandwich. — Warren Zevon

Still waking up in the mornings with shaking hands
And I'm trying to find a girl who understands me
But except in dreams you're never really free — Warren Zevon

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through. — Warren Zevon

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

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

Regrets are so far from reality. — Warren Zevon

Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence
helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories. — Warren Zevon