Warren Zevon Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Disorder in the house
The doors are coming off the hinges
The earth will open and swallow up the real estate
I just got my paycheck
I'm gonna paint the whole town grey
Whether it's a night in Paris or a Fresno matinee
It's the home of the brave and the land of the free
Where the less you know the better off you'll be

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

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.

I have no guitar technique.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

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

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

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.

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

I don't like piano solos.

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

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.

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

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.

Dylan can do no wrong.

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

I'm not a big jazz fan.

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

They say love conquers all
You can't start it like a car
You can't stop it with a gun.

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

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.

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.

Piano is like drudgery.

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

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

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

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

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

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

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

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