We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
AXL ROSEIf 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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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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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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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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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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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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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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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