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 ROSEWe are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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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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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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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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 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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At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it’s definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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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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