Warren Zevon Quotes
"I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is."
- Warren Zevon
"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Music, Folk)
"Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember."
- Warren Zevon
"Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating."
- Warren Zevon
"You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles."
- Warren Zevon
"My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: People, Memory)
"But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals."
- Warren Zevon
"I don't like piano solos."
- Warren Zevon
"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Business)
"Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him."
- Warren Zevon
"Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well."
- Warren Zevon
"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."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Composers)
"Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Time)
"Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Past, Projects)
"But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging."
- Warren Zevon
"I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Guitar)
"Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: First)
"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."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Music, Attention, Enjoyment, Holly)
"I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Time, Life, Jazz)
"I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions."
- Warren Zevon
"I remember certain lines and whose they are."
- Warren Zevon
"I wish I sang better."
- Warren Zevon
"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Sleep)
"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."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Error, First, Years)
"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."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Years)
"The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Being)
"I have no guitar technique."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Guitar)
"My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: First)
"Piano is like drudgery."
- Warren Zevon
"Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Home)
"So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Years)
"Dylan can do no wrong."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Wrong)
"I'm not a big jazz fan."
- Warren Zevon
(Related: Jazz)
"Enjoy every sandwich."
- Warren Zevon
"And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard."
- Warren Zevon