Top 92 Quotes About Warren Zevon
#1. But the truth is that L.A. was never entirely real anyway, as Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Warren Zevon, Larry David and Alan Ball all understood.
Barney Hoskyns
#2. Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
Warren Zevon
#3. We buy books because we believe we are buying the time to read them.
Warren Zevon
#4. 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
#5. The days slide by
Should have done, should have done, we all sigh ...
Warren Zevon
#6. But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
Warren Zevon
#7. I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.
Warren Zevon
#8. It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.
Warren Zevon
#10. 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
#11. I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.
Warren Zevon
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
Warren Zevon
#16. 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
#17. Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.
Warren Zevon
#18. At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.
Warren Zevon
#19. I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.
Warren Zevon
#20. 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
#21. I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.
Warren Zevon
#22. I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.
Warren Zevon
#23. But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
Warren Zevon
#25. Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
Warren Zevon
#26. Cachet - isn't that like panache, but sitting down?
Warren Zevon
#27. 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
#28. Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.
Warren Zevon
#29. Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.
Warren Zevon
#30. Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
Warren Zevon
#31. You can dream the American Dream
But you sleep with the lights on
And wake up with a scream
Warren Zevon
#33. Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.
Warren Zevon
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Warren Zevon
#38. So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
Warren Zevon
#39. I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.
Warren Zevon
#40. Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
Warren Zevon
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Send lawyers, guns and money; the shit has hit the fan.
Warren Zevon
#44. We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
Warren Zevon
#45. 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
#48. I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.
Warren Zevon
#49. Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence
helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Warren Zevon
#51. The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.
Warren Zevon
#52. 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
#53. I was born to rock the boat. Some may sink, but we may float.
Warren Zevon
#54. 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
#55. That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
Warren Zevon
#57. I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it
Warren Zevon
#58. It's alright. It's okay if it's about your ego. Sometimes it's got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.
Crystal Zevon
#59. I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.
Warren Zevon
#60. My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
Warren Zevon
#61. Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.
Warren Zevon
#62. I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
Warren Zevon
#63. And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
Warren Zevon
#64. I read things I didn't know I'd done,
It sounded like a lot of fun.
Warren Zevon
#65. 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
#66. When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.
Warren Zevon
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. I remember certain lines and whose they are.
Warren Zevon
#70. Our job isn't to turn our bulb down to make the person next to us more comfortable. Our job is to turn our bulb up and give the next person permission to do the same. Warren did that.
Crystal Zevon
#71. Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
Warren Zevon
#72. Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
Warren Zevon
#73. I don't get depressed and I don't get bored
Warren Zevon
#74. Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.
Warren Zevon
#75. I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
Warren Zevon
#76. My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
Warren Zevon
#77. The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
Warren Zevon
#78. Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.
Warren Zevon
#79. Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
Warren Zevon
#80. Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
Warren Zevon
#81. 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
#82. Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.
Warren Zevon
#83. I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
Warren Zevon
#84. My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
Warren Zevon
#85. I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.
Martha Stout
#86. I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
Warren Zevon
#87. 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
#88. There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
Warren Zevon
#89. You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.
Warren Zevon
#90. They say love conquers all
You can't start it like a car
You can't stop it with a gun.
Warren Zevon
#91. We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
[Inside Out (VH1)]
Warren Zevon
#92. If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.
Warren Zevon
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