Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
AXL ROSELet 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
-
-
Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
AXL ROSE -
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.
AXL ROSE -
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.
AXL ROSE -
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.
AXL ROSE -
I don’t even know my own phone number.
AXL ROSE -
If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, ’cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.
AXL ROSE -
What’s so civil about war anyway?
AXL ROSE -
Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
AXL ROSE -
November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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.
AXL ROSE -
We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
AXL ROSE -
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 ROSE -
I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
AXL ROSE -
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.
AXL ROSE -
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.
AXL ROSE -
I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
AXL ROSE -
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’.
AXL ROSE -
Many times drugs and alcohol – there’s a technical term that they’re called, emotional suppressants – are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.
AXL ROSE -
There was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
AXL ROSE -
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.
AXL ROSE -
I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
AXL ROSE -
I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
AXL ROSE -
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 ROSE -
Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
AXL ROSE -
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.
AXL ROSE -
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.
AXL ROSE