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.
AXL ROSEThere was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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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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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, ’cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.
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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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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 like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
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Many times drugs and alcohol – there’s a technical term that they’re called, emotional suppressants – are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.
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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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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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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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We take it for granted we know the whole story – We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
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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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People can do whatever they want to, but I’m more pro-hetero. I’m not knocking it – I have friends that are gay. It’s just that it’s not my cup of tea, l guess. That’s all. People can do what they want.
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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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