Quotes By Warren Zevon

I don't like piano solos.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I wish I sang better.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have no guitar technique.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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

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.

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

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

Enjoy every sandwich.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

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

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

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.

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

Dylan can do no wrong.