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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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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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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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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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I personally don’t do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I’d rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.
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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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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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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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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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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 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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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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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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