Axl Rose Quotes
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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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We wish we were doing it, of course, under much better circumstances, but this man was loved. For Chris.
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As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life, there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives, etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises... or not! Ha!
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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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If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane.
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If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.
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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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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'
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When the going gets tough, the tough get an uzi.
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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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My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right. There's a screaming two-year-old who's real pissed off and hides and won't show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn't protect him. And the world didn't protect him.