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Axl Rose

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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Art Children Evidence Music Myself People Wrong
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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Art Explanation Feeling Performance Responsibility Work
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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Experience Honor Money Myself Recognition Respect Try
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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Hold Life Lyrics Mindset Music Myself Open Teacher
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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Myself Peace Present
I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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Crowd Different Feeling Myself Thinking
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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Divorce Dogs End Happiness Myself People Sleep
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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Fear Ideal Live Love Oneself
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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Greatness Hold Myself Wait
Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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Blame Feeling Stay
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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Destruction Myself Nature Work
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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Friendship Love Time Yourself
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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Idol Influence Life Myself
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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Dogs Kill Myself Personal Problem Small
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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Compete Invention Level Myself Vocal Writing
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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Judgement Line Reading Story

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