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I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we’re coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

Axl Rose

If 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.
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Hold Life Lyrics Mindset Music Myself Open Teacher
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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Divorce Dogs End Happiness Myself People Sleep
There was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
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Destruction Myself Nature Work
Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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Deep Fear Love Wisdom
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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Fear Ideal Live Love Oneself
I’d just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.
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Dogs Kill Myself Personal Problem Small
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
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Compete Invention Level Myself Vocal Writing
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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Deal Love Rain State
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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Intention Life Live Myself Respect
I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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Car Friendship Movie Myself Show
Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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Blame Feeling Stay
I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don’t really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don’t see it having to do with anything other than them making money.
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Experience Honor Money Myself Recognition Respect Try
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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Friendship Love Time Yourself
I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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Different Music Myself Sing Voice
What’s so civil about war anyway?
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Civil One Liner War
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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Deep Drugs Emotional Hard Issues Myself Person Personal Way

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we’re coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

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