There was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
AXL ROSEIf I hadn’t had Freddie Mercury’s lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don’t know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music… it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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I guess I like who I am now. I’d just like to have a little more internal peace. I’m sure everybody would.
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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
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I’m late to everything. I’ve always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, ‘Sorry I’m Late’.
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When I was a kid, I was told rock n’ roll wasn’t music. It wasn’t art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong – and they meant everything to me.
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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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In general I usually don’t really go by or live my life by a clock and outside of touring I don’t really ask anyone else to. It’s not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.
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Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn’t owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another’s, or in this case several others’, expense.
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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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I personally don’t do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I’d rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.
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