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 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 go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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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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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 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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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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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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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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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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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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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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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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