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Warren Zevon

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    Warren Zevon

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

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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.

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

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    At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.

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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.

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

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    Can't you just imagine digging up the King, begging him to sing about those heavenly mansions Jesus mentioned.

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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.

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

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

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    Enjoy every sandwich.

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    Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.

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

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    Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

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    I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.

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    I don't like piano solos.

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

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

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    I have no guitar technique.

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    I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

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

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    I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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    I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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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.

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

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    I'm not a big jazz fan.

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    I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

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

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    I read things I didn't know I'd done, It sounded like a lot of fun.

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    I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

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    It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

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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.

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    I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.

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

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

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    LeRoy says there's something you should know, not everybody has a place to go. And home is just a place to hang your head, and dream of things to do in Denver when you're dead.

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    Little old lady got mutilated late last night, werewolves of London, again.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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    Regrets are so far from reality.

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    Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

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    Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

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    Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

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    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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    The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.

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

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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.

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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.