Zevon Quotes

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

Enjoy every sandwich. — Warren Zevon

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't like piano solos. — Warren Zevon

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

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

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

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

I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect. — Martha Stout

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Dylan can do no wrong. — Warren Zevon

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

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

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