Axl Rose Quotes
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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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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 sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.
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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 know I can do better than that.
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I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.
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Suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego. He is no longer willing to acknowledge the contributions of his former partners...
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Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!
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Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I'd go, "Wait a minute, this isn't what I want to do," and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.
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'Appetite for Destruction' was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns.
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There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.
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If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane.
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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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Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.
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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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What’s so civil about war anyway?
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We wish we were doing it, of course, under much better circumstances, but this man was loved. For Chris.
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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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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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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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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.