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This category contains articles, images and quotes that were featured for a given month on the main page.

Past Revisions

• May 2009
• June 2009
• August 2009
• September 2009
• October 2009
• November 2009
• First Anniversary Main Page
• December 2009
• January 2010
• February 2010
• March 2010
• April 2010
• May 2010
• June 2010
• July 2010
• August 2010
• September 2010
• October 2010
• November 2010

Featured Quotes

• May 2009: "I suppose on some deep and profound level, the evening would seem incomplete to me without three minutes of howling." - In reference to always seeming to have to sing "Werewolves of London" at concerts.
• June 2009: "I always like to have violent lyrics and violent music, the knowledge of death and fear of death informs my existence. It's a safe, kind of cheerful way of dealing with that issue." - Warren Zevon - Talking about the violence in his song writing.
• August 2009: "Well, I can't really complain. I did take copies of the albums to my doctors and said this is why I'm not so shocked." - Talking about receiving his terminal diagnosis on the The Late Show with David Letterman.
• September 2009: "Well, that's the problem you see. I think they are eventually going to run out of parts where they need an actor to play Warren Zevon." - Talking about his television appearances on The Jon Stewart Show.
• October 2009: "I know my image is supposed to be violent, and lots of cussing and everything, but there's a certain kind of inelegance that gives me the creeps." - Warren Zevon talking about his public persona.
• November 2009: "In line at the market: 'Excuse me, I have terminal cancer. Can you help her with her coupons? Can we speed this up a little?'" - Warren Zevon soon after being diagnosed with Mesothelioma.
• December 2009: "I don't remember stardom with any longing, it was a brief opportunity to be rude: 'Fire that opening act. I don't like the way he looked at me.' My success was a fluke. I was a folk singer who accidentally had one big hit." - Warren Zevon considering his brief time in the spotlight.
• January 2010: "I always thought old age would be a good subject for rock & roll. If you thought Neil Young and I were mad about being young, wait till you hear how mad we are about being old and decrepit." - Warren Zevon on his fascination with old age and decay in his songwriting.
• February 2010: "I just think that popular music as we understood it for a long time was kind of limited... to songs about a certain thing, love songs for the most part... And it wasn't exactly what I was doing..."- Warren Zevon on his violent and edgy song content and "song noir."
• March 2010: ""I don’t feel I was ever badly served by the big old record industry. My records never sold and I never blamed anybody. At least they let me make them. I figured that was the whole deal." - Discussing his record sales and lack of mainstream commercial success.
• April 2010: "And I also never really got rich but that might have been lucky too... because the less time you spend with the issues of being rich and like the issues of being famous, they're not real issues and so they're not real life... there is more of a human exchange of ideas and feelings to be had on the bus stop then over the phone with your accountant. If you are rich you spend a lot of time on the phone with your accountant, it's necessary I believe... I know I am happy and that must mean that I must be lucky, that I know." - On the soul of songwriting in comparison to wealth.
• May 2010: "I don't think about what other people's perception of me is, at least not any more than anybody in any field does. You know, the cable guy and the person who parks your car, or your dentist thinks. Perhaps to a fault it doesn't enter into the artistic process, you know it enters into the daily interactions in real life as much as it does for anybody." - On public perception.
• June 2010: "I think that we all can take portions of the song [I Was in the House When the House Burned Down] as first person, first hand experience. Remember what we always said 'in the songwriting field there isn't a section for fiction and a section for non-fiction, it's all mixed together.'" - On the perspectives of songwriting.
• July 2010: "Yeah, honestly, I don't remember. I was a little medicated during the 80s... I'm not even sure if I'm on that album." - In response to Kathy Griffin's character asking "So Warren, was it really Niel Young playing on Sentimental Hygiene?" during his 1999 cameo on Suddenly Susan, parodying his drug abuse and detox in the 1980s.
• August 2010: "I've said this before and I'll say this again, there is a song I'd like to play for ya that I wrote a decade ago or just about... In those days, when I wrote the song, I wasn't a very happy fellow. I was poor and strung out and screwed up. Now I'm just screwed up and I'm very happy, thank you, thank you very much!" - Introducing "Hasten Down the Wind" on Stand in the Fire, horribly ironic given this was just before the turmoil following The Envoy.
• September 2010: "I called Jorge last night and his daughter, his grown daughter, was there (he wasn't), and she said 'you know a friend of mine just came from a trip to Memphis, and she said to me, you know I just went to Graceland and the most striking thing I saw in the whole place was this Porcelain Monkey of Elvis'!'" - Responding to questions about "Porcelain Monkey" from an interview included with Preludes: Rare and Unreleased Recordings.
• October 2010: "A few months later, Warren he called me from a recording studio, where Paul Schaefer, David Letterman and that whole band were in session. And he said, 'We’re recording the hockey song.' And I said, 'What? You’re RECORDING it?' And he said, 'Why did you think I asked you to write it? To read it?'"
• Mitch Albom
• "I'm insane. I'm fucked up. I have problems. But I don't get depressed and I don't get bored." - Said to David Bowman of Salon.com.

Featured Articles

• May 2009: "The Offender Meets the Pretender"
• June 2009: "The First Sessions"
• August 2009: "A Bullet for Ramona"
• September 2009: "Seminole Bingo"
• October 2009: "Boom Boom Mancini"
• November 2009: "The French Inhaler"
• December 2009: "Hit Somebody! (The Hockey Song)"
• January 2010: "Hurry Home Early: the Songs of Warren Zevon"
• February 2010: "Ariel Zevon"
• March 2010: "Studebaker"
• April 2010" "Ride So High"
• May 2010: "Dirty Life and Times"
• June 2010: "Mohammed's Radio"
• July 2010: "Life'll Kill Ya (song)"
• August 2010: "Hasten Down the Wind"
• September 2010: "Porcelain Monkey"
• October 2010: "The Envoy (song)"
• November 2010: "The Long Arm Of The Law"

Featured Images

• May 2009: "Warren-zevon-piano.png"
• June 2009: "Warren-Zevon-Edmonton-2002.png"
• August 2009: "Memorial.png"
• September 2009: "2003-Grammys.jpg"
• October 2009: "Zevonopoly.png"
• November 2009: "Enjoy-Every-Sandwich.png
• December 2009: "Warren-Zevon-Werewolves-Of-London-Single-Cover.png"
• January 2010: "Warren-Zevon-Fan-Art-Two.png"
• February 2010: "Roland-Fan-Art.jpg"
• March 2010: "Warren-Jordan-Zevon.png"
• April 2010: "Warren-Zevon-Waddy-Wachtel.png"
• May 2010: "Warren-Zevon-David-Letterman-Final-Appearance.png"
• June 2010: "Zevon-Browne-December-1976.png"
• July 2010: "Warren-Zevon-Jon-Stewart-Show.png"
• August 2010: "Hasten-Down-The-Wind.jpg"
• September 2010: "Porcelain-Monkey.png"
• October 2010: "Austin-Opera-House-June-1978.jpg"
• November 2010: "File:Zevon-&-Something-Underground-Autographs.png"