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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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 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'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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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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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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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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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 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 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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I don't even know my own phone number.
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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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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 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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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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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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One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.