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

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

- Warren Zevon

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

- Warren Zevon

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

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

- Warren Zevon

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

- Warren Zevon

I don't like piano solos.

- Warren Zevon

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

- Warren Zevon

I'm not a big jazz fan.

- Warren Zevon

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

- Warren Zevon

I wish I sang better.

- Warren Zevon

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Warren Zevon

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

- Warren Zevon

I have no guitar technique.

- Warren Zevon

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

- Warren Zevon