Life Quotes

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

W.B. Yeats

You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

Warren Zevon

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

Warren Zevon

It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Warren Zevon

I played a lot of real normal, straight sessions.

Warren Zevon

I wish I sang better.

Warren Zevon

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

Warren Zevon

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

Warren Zevon

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

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

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

Warren Zevon

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

Warren Zevon

Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.

Warren Zevon

Sometimes you become a character, and sometimes the character becomes you.

William Zabka

Prior to 'The Karate Kid', I did commercials - Kool-Aid, Pepsi, milk - and I had always been cast as the all-American nice guy.

William Zabka

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

William Zinsser

It's not the beauty that's important, it's the idea that is important.

Wendy Zhang

Even a poor translator couldn't kill a style that moves with such narrative clarity.

William Zinsser

Motivation clears the head faster than a nasal spray.

William Zinsser

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

William Zinsser