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.
AXL ROSEWhen 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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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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I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
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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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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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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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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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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 feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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’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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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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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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