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 ROSEI guess I like who I am now. I’d just like to have a little more internal peace. I’m sure everybody would.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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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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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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I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
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