Warren Zevon famous quotes
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We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.
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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... 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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I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it
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Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.
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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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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.
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I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand
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I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.
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When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.
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And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.
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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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I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.
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If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.
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I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.
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Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.
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Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.
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All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.
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To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life." My message as a person who evidently doens't have much more planned is the same. It's the only message I ever thought art had any business having.
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I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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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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My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
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I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.
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We made mad love shadow love random love and abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder.
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don't let us get sick, don't let us get old, don't let us get stupid, alright? just make us be brave, and make us play nice, and let us be together tonight.
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I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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You put more value on every minute...You know I always kinda thought I did that. I really always enjoyed myself. But it's more valuable now. You're reminded to enjoy every sandwich and every minute.
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They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.
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You can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream
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Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.
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I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.
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Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.
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I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.
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I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.
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The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.
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Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.
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You're suppose to sit on your ***** and nod at stupid things.
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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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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.
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Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.
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Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.
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People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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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 missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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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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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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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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My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.
-- Warren Zevon
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