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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.

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.
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Dogs Kill Myself Personal Problem Small
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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Art Children Evidence Music Myself People Wrong
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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Greatness Hold Myself Wait
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.
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Hold Life Lyrics Mindset Music Myself Open Teacher
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.
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Alcohol Deal Drugs Myself Pain Person Survive Time
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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Gold Myself Side Writing
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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Intention Life Live Myself Respect
Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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Friendship Love Time Yourself
Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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Blame Feeling Stay
I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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Different Music Myself Sing Voice
What’s so civil about war anyway?
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Civil One Liner War
I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
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Privacy Reality Yourself
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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Destruction Myself Nature Work
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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Compete Invention Level Myself Vocal Writing
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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Idol Influence Life Myself
I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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Car Friendship Movie Myself Show

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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