Warren Zevon Quotes

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

My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

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.

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

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

I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to play a Neil Young solo, and then you realize there`s a good chance you can get Neil himself.

People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.

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

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

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

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

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.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... 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.

Enjoy every sandwich.

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

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

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.

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have no guitar technique.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.