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 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.

Warren Zevon

Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

Warren Zevon

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

Warren Zevon

Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved 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

Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.

Warren Zevon

I don’t like piano solos.

Warren Zevon

It took me 10 years to realize that I don’t know ’em, 10 years to realize that it’s possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

Warren Zevon

Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.

Warren Zevon

But there’s a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

Warren Zevon

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn’t pay off.

Warren Zevon

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.

Warren Zevon

I’m not a big jazz fan.

Warren Zevon

I wish I sang better.

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

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

Warren Zevon

I don’t learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

Warren Zevon

My memory is not even what most people’s is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

Warren Zevon

Piano is like drudgery.

Warren Zevon

Yeah, I don’t like, um, I’m not interested in rock ‘n’ roll piano. I find it a little grating.

Warren Zevon

The primary one being, like I said, I don’t like rock ‘n’ roll piano.

Warren Zevon

Dylan doesn’t have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

Warren Zevon

But I can’t say that I didn’t like John Hammond’s performances often better than the originals.

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

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Warren Zevon

Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

Warren Zevon

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

Warren Zevon

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

Warren Zevon

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

Warren Zevon

I’ll sleep when I’m dead.

Warren Zevon

Well, I don’t think it ever did, but in the early ’60s I got interested in folk music.

Warren Zevon

My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.

Warren Zevon

Dylan can do no wrong.

Warren Zevon

I have no guitar technique.

Warren Zevon

And I think it’s safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.

Warren Zevon

Enjoy every sandwich.

Warren Zevon