Warren Zevon Quotes

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

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

Regrets are so far from reality.

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

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

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

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

I wish I sang better.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm not a big jazz fan.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.