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.
AXL ROSEMany 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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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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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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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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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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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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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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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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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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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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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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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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