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.
AXL ROSEFear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
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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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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 go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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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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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’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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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 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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