Guns N' Roses Quotes
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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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Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.
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A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.
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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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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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It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.
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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 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 don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.
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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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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 don't even know my own phone number.
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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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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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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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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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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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If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.
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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 ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.
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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 like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.