Guns N' Roses Quotes
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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 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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A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.
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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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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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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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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 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 don't even know my own phone number.
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I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.
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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 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 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 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 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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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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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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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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I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
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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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When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.