130 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.

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

That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.

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.