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 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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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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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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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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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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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’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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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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 go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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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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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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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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