130 Quotes by Warren Zevon

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

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

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

"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 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 write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to play a Neil Young solo, and then you realize there`s a good chance you can get Neil himself."

"I don't like piano solos."

"Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned."

"Piano is like drudgery."

"It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world."