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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.

— Warren Zevon

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

From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave — nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.

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

So much to do, there's plenty on the farm; I'll sleep when I'm dead.

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

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

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Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

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