Warren Zevon Quotes
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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.
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I'm insane. I'm fucked up. I have problems. But I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave - nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I remember certain lines and whose they are.
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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.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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I don't like piano solos.
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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.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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Dylan can do no wrong.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.