Warren Zevon Quotes

We buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

Enjoy every sandwich.

I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.

If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

When I was young, times were hard. When I got older it was worse.

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.

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.

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.

I got to be Jim Morrison a lot longer than he did.

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.

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.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

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.

You can dream the American Dream But you sleep with the lights on And wake up with a scream

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

I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about.

The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

You're suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.

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.