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.
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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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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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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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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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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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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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 like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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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 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 don’t even know my own phone number.
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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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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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