Warren Zevon Quotes

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

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

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

Enjoy every sandwich.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

Piano is like drudgery.

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

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

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

I have no guitar technique.

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

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.

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

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

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.

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 like piano solos.

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

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.

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

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