There was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
AXL ROSEI’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’.
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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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 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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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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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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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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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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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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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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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 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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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.
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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 like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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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 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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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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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 love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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