Warren Zevon Quotes (40 Quotes)

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

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.

I don't like piano solos.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

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

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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

The first few albums I bought, I guess around high school age, I had a John Lee Hooker album and a Bo Diddley album, and then some singles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 have no guitar technique.

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

Dylan can do no wrong.

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

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.

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

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

Piano is like drudgery.

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

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

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

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

Send lawyers, guns and money, the shit has hit the fan.

This is a song my dad wrote in the late '60s that I discovered in a box of reel-to-reel tapes that were sitting in a storage bin, ... I've had the sheet music for years, but never heard the song until a few months ago and it's one of my favorites. He re-recorded it several years later as 'Steady Rain,' but that was also never released. This version is a combination of the two. It has the tempo and feel, as well as the bridge, from 'Steady Rain,' but the lyrics and instrumentation of 'Warm Rain.'

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

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.

I also told John Hammond this, 20 years later - to his exquisite embarrassment - that he was like this incredible, overwhelming influence on me.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

I wish I sang better.

Enjoy every sandwich.

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

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.