34 Quotes by Warren Zevon
- My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
- I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.
- Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
- Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
- Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
- You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
- My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
- But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
- I don't like piano solos.
- That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
- Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
- But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
- I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
- Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
- I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
- I remember certain lines and whose they are.
- I wish I sang better.
- I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- 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.
- 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.
- The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
- I have no guitar technique.
- My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
- Piano is like drudgery.
- Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
- So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.
- Dylan can do no wrong.
- I'm not a big jazz fan.
- Enjoy every sandwich.
- And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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