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

Warren Zevon

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Warren Zevon
Age: 56 †
Born: 1947
Born: January 24
Died: 2003
Died: September 7
Guitarist
Pianist
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
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Chicago
Illinois
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Stephen Lyme
Warren William Zevon
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I don't get depressed and I don't get bored.
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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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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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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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I'm not a big jazz fan.
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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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My father was a boxer, though. So, I have a particular interest in Ray Mancini, I think.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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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.
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Excitable boy, they all said, he killed and raped her and brought her home.
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Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.
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Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
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Regrets are so far from reality.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence -- helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
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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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I'm drinking here break motor oil and Bombay gin, I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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I wish I sang better.
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I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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