Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
AXL ROSEI 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.
More Axl Rose Quotes
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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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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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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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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.
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I don’t even know my own phone number.
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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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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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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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