Song Quotes by Warren Zevon

Piano is like drudgery.

— Warren Zevon

I wish I sang better.

— Warren Zevon

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music…

— Warren Zevon

I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was.…

— 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

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

— Warren Zevon

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him…

— Warren Zevon

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.

— Warren Zevon

To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life." My message as a person who evidently doens't have…

— Warren Zevon

I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to…

— Warren Zevon