I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
AXL ROSEMany 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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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 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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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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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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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.
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