Top 60 Warren Zevon Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”

— Warren Zevon

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2. “Enjoy every sandwich.”

— Warren Zevon

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3. “We buy books because we believe we’re buying the time to read them.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

5. “I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

9. “There’s nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It’s a real coward’s death.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

11. “We made mad love shadow love random love and abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

13. “I like wherever I am. That’s my big secret.”

— Warren Zevon

14. “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.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

16. “I write each song individually and each one calls for individual musicians, You sit around and wonder who can we get to play a Neil Young solo, and then you realize there’s a good chance you can get Neil himself.”

— Warren Zevon

17. “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

18. “Your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

20. “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

21. “You’re suppose to sit on your ass and nod at stupid things.”

— Warren Zevon

22. “I can saw a woman in two – but you won’t want to look in the box when I’m through.”

— Warren Zevon

23. “I’m drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”

— Warren Zevon

24. “The hurt gets worse as the heart grows harder.”

— Warren Zevon

25. “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

26. “If you won’t leave me, I’ll find someone who will.”

— Warren Zevon

27. “I don’t get depressed and I don’t get bored.”

— Warren Zevon

28. “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.”

— Warren Zevon

29. “At least I’ve had one foot in a very normal kind of life.”

— Warren Zevon

30. “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

31. “That’s my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.”

— Warren Zevon

32. “I was born to rock the boat. Some may sink, but we may float.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

34. “I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

36. “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

37. “Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence – helplessness. That’s why I turn to violent stories.”

— Warren Zevon

38. “My memory is not even what most peoples is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

43. “Here’s a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.”

— Warren Zevon

44. “I’ve been to Paris. And it ain’t that pretty at all.”

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

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

— Warren Zevon

49. “Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.”

— Warren Zevon

50. “Piano is like drudgery.”

— Warren Zevon