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.
AXL ROSEI 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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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 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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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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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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 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 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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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.
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Regarding social media, I really dont understand what appears to be the general populations lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent… but hey its them, not me, so whatever.
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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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I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.
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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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