Top 92 Zevon Quotes

#1. 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

Zevon Quotes #7944
#2. I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #28541
#3. 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

Zevon Quotes #68115
#4. 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

Zevon Quotes #135267
#5. When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #143090
#6. 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

Zevon Quotes #149553
#7. I read things I didn't know I'd done,
It sounded like a lot of fun.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #159459
#8. 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

Zevon Quotes #231992
#9. And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #249631
#10. I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #267242
#11. Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #273655
#12. I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #275260
#13. I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #314746
#14. 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

Zevon Quotes #315745
#15. I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #318524
#16. Dylan can do no wrong.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #320309
#17. That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #331020
#18. 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

Zevon Quotes #334151
#19. I was born to rock the boat. Some may sink, but we may float.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #362109
#20. 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

Zevon Quotes #373450
#21. The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #388209
#22. Enjoy every sandwich.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #430807
#23. Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence
helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #431855
#24. My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #526130
#25. If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #526619
#26. We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
[Inside Out (VH1)]

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #555800
#27. They say love conquers all
You can't start it like a car
You can't stop it with a gun.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #570504
#28. You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #604123
#29. There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #621678
#30. 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

Zevon Quotes #631311
#31. I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #686826
#32. I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.

Martha Stout

Zevon Quotes #699225
#33. My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #702775
#34. I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #707174
#35. Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #710056
#36. 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

Zevon Quotes #714132
#37. Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #749247
#38. Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #777316
#39. Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #781108
#40. The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #788311
#41. My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #797493
#42. I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #826136
#43. Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #847952
#44. I don't get depressed and I don't get bored

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #874434
#45. Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #885908
#46. Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #947335
#47. I don't like piano solos.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #993641
#48. If you don't like it, Eat me.

Rae Murphy

Zevon Quotes #1066213
#49. But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1070863
#50. I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1082959
#51. I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1084979
#52. 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

Zevon Quotes #1109440
#53. I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1116148
#54. At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1149998
#55. Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1161288
#56. 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

Zevon Quotes #1222747
#57. I have no guitar technique.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1284848
#58. Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1323089
#59. 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

Zevon Quotes #1337159
#60. 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

Zevon Quotes #1356837
#61. I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1380204
#62. 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

Zevon Quotes #1386944
#63. Piano is like drudgery.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1387948
#64. It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1388798
#65. I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1425837
#66. But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1438558
#67. The days slide by
Should have done, should have done, we all sigh ...

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1450957
#68. 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

Zevon Quotes #1465953
#69. Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1474129
#70. We buy books because we believe we are buying the time to read them.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1509473
#71. I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1520853
#72. I'm not a big jazz fan.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1555374
#73. 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

Zevon Quotes #1584281
#74. We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1627139
#75. Send lawyers, guns and money; the shit has hit the fan.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1640473
#76. 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

Zevon Quotes #1654794
#77. 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

Zevon Quotes #1661598
#78. Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1709015
#79. I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1717475
#80. So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1748184
#81. Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1767465
#82. I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1776771
#83. 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

Zevon Quotes #1781492
#84. 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

Zevon Quotes #1787044
#85. Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1808089
#86. Regrets are so far from reality.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1825431
#87. You can dream the American Dream
But you sleep with the lights on
And wake up with a scream

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1835349
#88. Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1852024
#89. Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1866228
#90. Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1867685
#91. 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

Zevon Quotes #1874567
#92. Cachet - isn't that like panache, but sitting down?

Warren Zevon

Zevon Quotes #1875420

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