
That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business. —
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 got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did. —
Warren Zevon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Piano is like drudgery. —
Warren Zevon

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

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

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

Regrets are so far from reality. —
Warren Zevon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is. —
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 can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through. —
Warren Zevon

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

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

I have no guitar technique. —
Warren Zevon

If you don't like it, Eat me. —
Rae Murphy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. —
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 went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity. —
Warren Zevon

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