Guns N' Roses Quotes
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The only difference is that, in the last 10 years, the public has been so affected by reality TV and the Internet. They really dwell on entertainers' misgivings.
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Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.
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Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.
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I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It's helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.
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I mean, the thing about Guns N' Roses was that it wasn't trying to attach itself to the '80s, or anything that had to do with the '80s. It's just who we were at that time. We were doing what we wanted to do. That had really nothing to do with anything around us, except for the simple fact that we were rebelling against that stuff.
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It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.
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When you're in a band, it's a close-knit thing. There's a lot of emotional stuff.
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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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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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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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Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.
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I don't even know my own phone number.
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It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.
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A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
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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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November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.
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When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around.
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It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.
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Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."
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I haven't spoken to Slash in ten years. I love the guy, I always wanted everyone to know how great he was, but... I was just talking to Izzy the other day though.
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I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.
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There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.
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When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.
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I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.