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 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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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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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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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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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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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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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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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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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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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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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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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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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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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