Guns N' Roses Quotes
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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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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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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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I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.
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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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A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.
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I don't even know my own phone number.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.
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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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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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I'm not God but if I were God, ¾ of you would be girls, and the rest would be pizza and beer.