Warren Zevon Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in. ~ 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 went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity. ~ Warren Zevon

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

I don't get depressed and I don't get bored ~ Warren Zevon

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

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

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
[Inside Out (VH1)] ~ 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 had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid. ~ Warren Zevon

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

Piano is like drudgery. ~ Warren Zevon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ~ Warren Zevon

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

Dylan can do no wrong. ~ Warren Zevon

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

I'm not a big jazz fan. ~ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have no guitar technique. ~ Warren Zevon

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

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

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

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage. ~ 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 don't like piano solos. ~ Warren Zevon

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

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret. ~ Warren Zevon

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ~ Warren Zevon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first way to balance stress in my life is to get an internal balance of who I am. And I know who I am by knowing whose I am. I am a child of God. I was put on earth not by accident, but for a purpose. I am deeply loved by God. I am accepted by him. He has a plan for my life, and because he put me here, I am significant. ~ Rick Warren

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart. ~ Diane Warren

Because I can," he said simply. "I don't need another reason." It ~ Skye Warren

The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is
what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here
and that is a blessing
do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole? ~ Warren St. John

If you invested in a very low cost index fund - where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years -you'll do better than 90% of people who start investing at the same time. ~ Warren Buffett

He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place. ~ Rick Warren

Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together. ~ Shane Warren Jones

Tallow turned the corner into Bat and Scarly's office to be greeted by a large plastic robot on the bench waving its arms and shouting, "Say hello to my l'il frien'" in an electronically processed voiced as a small plastic penis repeatedly jabbed out from its groin on a short metal piston.
Bat emerged from behind the thing. "Don't judge me," he said. "I got bored. ~ Warren Ellis

All leaders are learners. The moment you stop learning, you stop leading. I learn as much as I can, from as many as I can, as often as I can. ~ Rick Warren

At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television ... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.' ~ Warren Littlefield

We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do. ~ Warren Buffett

Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property. ~ Josiah Warren

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer. ~ Warren Beatty

Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked. ~ Warren Buffett

We do not understand and then obey: that is instruction. We obey by faith, and then we understand: that is illumination. ~ Warren W. Wiersbe

And Eleanor's husband was the man who did the interning. And I think they - Governor Warren, who was later to become such an impassioned Chief Justice on all sorts of human rights issues, was very big in the internment process. And I think that we simply sometimes tend not to understand or remember how people felt. ~ William A. Rusher

What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at every pitch. ~ Warren Buffett

ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT ~ Warren Ellis

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses. ~ Estella Warren

Everything comes from God alone. Everything lives by his power, and everything is for his glory. ROMANS 11:36 LB ~ Rick Warren

So I'm not allowed to take responsibility for the whole world, but you are, huh?
Kees felt the corners of his mouth twitch and his heart squeeze and then melt ...
I am bigger, he growled.
And she laughed. ~ Christine Warren

My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show. ~ Warren Littlefield

Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house. ~ Warren Cuccurullo

As a coach, I want players to challenge me, to question me and ask why we're doing a certain thing, so they feel that they're taking ownership. ~ Warren Gatland

I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive? ~ Rick Warren

An untested faith is an unreliable faith. ~ Kay Warren

While investors and managers must place their feet in the future, their memories and nervous systems often remain plugged into the past. ~ Warren Buffett

I think a Donald Trump presidency sets up an Elizabeth Warren ascendancy. And it not Elizabeth Warren, someone of her ilk. And I think that's dreadful. ~ Bret Stephens

Unconditional love will turn a loser into a winner. You have no idea how many times your heavenly Father has wanted to reach out and grasp you in his arms when you felt like you blew it! ~ Rick Warren

If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic. ~ Warren Rudman

To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching. ~ Warren E. Burger

What's true or right is NEVER determined by popularity or polls. The right thing is often unpopular since it's harder to do. ~ Rick Warren

Always invest for the long term. ~ Warren Buffett

There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age? ~ Warren Buffett

While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only two: heaven or hell. Your relationship to God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity. ~ Rick Warren

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people. ~ Mercy Otis Warren

If you look back over your life you will see the first test you went through seems small now; it didn't then but it does now. With each test your faith grows you can endure more than you could before. ~ Christy Warren

In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We're taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women. ~ Warren Farrell

Warren was the first man who pried her open without permission, kissed away her shame, and dismissed that which she deemed ugly. The connection between them was fierce, and she felt revered by his attention and care. ~ Sadeqa Johnson