I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
AXL ROSEAt 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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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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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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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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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 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 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 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 like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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