Quotes By Warren Zevon

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.

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.

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

Dylan can do no wrong.

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

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.

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'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.

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

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

I don't like piano solos.

Enjoy every sandwich.

I'm not a big jazz fan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.