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 ROSEI sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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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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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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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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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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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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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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At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it’s definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.
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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 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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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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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