Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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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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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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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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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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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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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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I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.
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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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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’d just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.
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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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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 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.
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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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If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.
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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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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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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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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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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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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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