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’.
AXL ROSEI 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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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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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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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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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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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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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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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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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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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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn’t owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another’s, or in this case several others’, expense.
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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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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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