Warren Zevon Quotes

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

  Warren Zevon

  Believe, Book, Buying

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

  Warren Zevon

  Life, Thinking, Dancing

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

  Warren Zevon

  Change, Secret, Growth

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

  Warren Zevon

  Evil, Trying, Schedules

  Song: Mr. Bad Example, Album: Genius: Best of Warren Zevon

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• Enjoy every sandwich.

  Warren Zevon

  Life, Sandwiches, Enjoy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Warren Zevon

  Young, Hard

  Song: The Long Arm of the Law, Album: Transverse City

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

  Warren Zevon

  Low Self Esteem, Leaving Me, Ifs

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• 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.

  Warren Zevon

  Sandwiches, Minutes, Enjoy

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• 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.

  Warren Zevon

  Nice, Stupid, Play

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

  Warren Zevon

  Gun, Car, Love Conquers All

  Song: Searching for a Heart

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• 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.

  Warren Zevon

  Girl, Jobs, Writing

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

  Warren Zevon

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Warren Zevon

  Song, Art, Enjoy Life

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• I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

  Warren Zevon

  Hands, Chinese, Saws

  Song: Werewolves of London, Album: Excitable Boy

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

  Warren Zevon

  Real, Drinking, Alcohol

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• 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.

  Warren Zevon

  Ocean, Future, California

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

  Warren Zevon

  Dream, Sleep, Light

  Song: Fistful of Rain, Album: Life'll Kill Ya

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

  Warren Zevon

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

  Warren Zevon

  Hurt, Heart, Adages

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• I'll sleep when I'm dead.

  Warren Zevon

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Song: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

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

  Warren Zevon

  Song, Drunk, Facts

  "Warren Zevon: Singer-songwriter author of 'Werewolves of London'" by Spencer Leigh, The Independent, September 9, 2003.

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• 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.

  Warren Zevon

  Hero, Home, Mean

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

  Warren Zevon

  Girl, Heart, Reality

  Song: Dirty Life and Times, Album: The Wind, 2003

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• I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.

  Warren Zevon

  Errors, Years, Physicians

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• Maybe you simply criticized someone you hardly knew. You ruined part of their life. For them, part of your life, too.

  Warren Zevon

  Rejection, Ruined

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