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