Axl Rose Quotes: Who is Axl Rose, William Bruce Rose, Jr., born 1962 is an American famous hard rock star. Founder and sole remaining original member of Guns N’ Roses, he also owns the group’s naming rights.
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Axl Rose Quotes
1. “I think the pressure has also helped me want to rise above that pressure, and it has helped in accelerating the healing process. It’s helped give me a drive. I have a definite survival drive, and the pressure gave me a drive to get on top of it.” – Axl Rose
2. “I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.” – Axl Rose
3. “If you are really into waiting, try holding your breath for Jesus, ’cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.” – Axl Rose
4. “I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.” – Axl Rose
5. “I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.” – Axl Rose
6. “I’d just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.” – Axl Rose
7. “We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.” – Axl Rose
8. “Sometimes I would want to sink, and then while I was sinking I’d go, “Wait a minute, this isn’t what I want to do,” and I would calm down while I was sinking and then start rising back to the surface again.” – Axl Rose
9. “I personally don’t do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I’d rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.” – Axl Rose
10. “I guess I like who I am now. I’d just like to have a little more internal peace. I’m sure everybody would.” – Axl Rose
11. “We have a saying in Guns N Roses: When somebodys gonna get yelled at, theyre gonna get the corn.” – Axl Rose
12. “Let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn’t owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another’s, or in this case several others’, expense.” – Axl Rose
13. “People can do whatever they want to, but I’m more pro-hetero. I’m not knocking it – I have friends that are gay. It’s just that it’s not my cup of tea, l guess. That’s all. People can do what they want.” – Axl Rose
14. “I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.” – Axl Rose
15. “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.” – Axl Rose
16. “I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you’re a person and they’re more into the entertainment value. It’s taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.” – Axl Rose
17. “I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don’t really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don’t see it having to do with anything other than them making money.” – Axl Rose
18. “I don’t even know my own phone number.” – Axl Rose
19. “There was a much more self-destructive nature in ‘Appetite.’ It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.” – Axl Rose
20. “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.” – Axl Rose
21. “Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.” – Axl Rose
22. “In general, I usually don’t really go by or live my life by a clock, and outside of touring, I don’t really ask anyone else to. It’s not out of lack of respect for anyone or intentional.” – Axl Rose
23. “Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.” – Axl Rose
24. “We take it for granted we know the whole story – We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.” – Axl Rose
25. “Be bitter, stay angry, and blame everyone!” – Axl Rose
26. “I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.” – Axl Rose
27. “If love is blind I guess I’ll buy myself a cane.” – Axl Rose
28. “At times I enjoy writing and at others times I just hate it because it’s definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel.” – Axl Rose
29. “What’s so civil about war anyway?” – Axl Rose
30.“I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.” – Axl Rose
31. “It’s really hard to maintain a one-on-one relationship if the other person is not going to allow me to be with other people.” – Axl Rose
32. “Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.” – Axl Rose
33. “November Rain is a song about not wanting to be in a state of having to deal with unrequited love.” – Axl Rose
34. “Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.” – Axl Rose
35. “Many times drugs and alcohol – there’s a technical term that they’re called, emotional suppressants – are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.” – Axl Rose
36. “Regarding social media, I really don’t understand what appears to be the general population’s lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent… but hey it’s them, not me, so whatever.” – Axl Rose
37. “‘Chinese Democracy’ wasn’t trying to tell China to have a democracy or anything like that. I don’t have an opinion on what kind of government they should have. My thing is, I went to stay there for about three months, and everywhere I went, the people are so shielded from what’s going on in the world.” – Axl Rose
38. “What I’d tell any kid in high school is, ‘Take business classes.’ I don’t care what else you’re gonna do; if you’re gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, ‘Well, I don’t want to get commercial,’ but if you do anything to make any money, you’re doing something commercial.” – Axl Rose
39. “I mainly listen to the music that’s playing during movies. It can be the theme to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean,’ ‘The Equalizer,’ stuff like that. I like the blend of orchestra with modern instrumentation. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do.” – Axl Rose
40. “Slash and I hadn’t talked in 19 years, and when we did talk, I was like, ‘You wrote a lot of stuff that didn’t even happen. It’s not real.'” – Axl Rose
41. “Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.” – Axl Rose
42. “I wasn’t looking at it like, ‘I’m singing for AC/DC.’ I was looking at it like, ‘Y’know, if I can, and if they think I’m able to do it.'” – Axl Rose
43. “A lot of the ‘Back In Black’ stuff is really challenging.” – Axl Rose
44. “We have a saying in Guns N’ Roses: ‘When somebody’s gonna get yelled at, they’re gonna get the corn.'” – Axl Rose
45. “‘Appetite for Destruction’ was the only thing written with lyrics and melody fitting the guitar parts at the same time. After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don’t know if that was the best thing for Guns.” – Axl Rose
46. “I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.” – Axl Rose
47. “The Guns N’ Roses reunion didn’t happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never seemed right or felt right.” – Axl Rose
48.” I don’t really know what to say about Izzy. It’s like you could have a conversation and think it’s one way, and the next day, it’s another way. And I’m not trying to take any shots at Izzy. It’s just his thing is kind of his thing, whatever that is.” – Axl Rose
49. “Queen has always been my favorite band. Freddie is the greatest singer, ever, is the way I look at it. The other thing about Queen for me is they embraced so many different styles.” – Axl Rose
50. “I’m in California, and that usually leans Democratic, and that’s usually where I lean anyway… I would lean Democrat; I would lean Obama.” – Axl Rose
