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.
AXL ROSEWhen 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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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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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 ROSE