There was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
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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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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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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I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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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 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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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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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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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 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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