Guns N' Roses Quotes
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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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No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.
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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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It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.
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I don't even know my own phone number.
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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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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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A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.
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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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If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you'd have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.
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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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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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I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.
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I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.
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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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Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.
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My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
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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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I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.
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I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.
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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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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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Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.
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I recognized my own creative voice filtered through those six strings, but it was also something else entirely. Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.