Axl Rose Quotes

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.

Axl Rose Guns N' Roses

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• I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.

  

  Lance Burton
  • Love
  • Teacher
  • Magic

• Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Up
  • Important
  • Worry

• Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • She
  • Small
  • Dad

• My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Picture
  • Favorite

• I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Art
  • Movement
  • Museum

• Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Kids
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Theory
  • Piano
  • Started

• I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Sweet
  • Wine
  • Butter

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Real
  • Why
  • Small

• The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Name
  • Will
  • Redskins

• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• I think Barack Obama was born into a home not just to a white woman and white grandparents, but a white woman and white grandparents who shockingly told him it was okay that he was black and that he should not be ashamed of it and that he should, in fact, be proud of it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Home
  • Black
  • Proud

• I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Hand

• There isn't much improvisation in film - there's virtually none. The people that theoretically could be good at this in a theater situation don't necessarily do this in a film in a way that will work, because it's much broader on a stage.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where Christian love is a reality.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Work
  • Loyalty

• I've played a lot of very posh, sort of noble or aristocratic English people, which is nothing like what I am, so I feel that there is quite a lot distance there and have played a little bit far away from myself.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • English
  • Distance

• 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.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
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  • Song