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Axl Rose Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“I’ve been hell on the women in my life, and the women in my life have been hell on me.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Women, Hell
“It can bother me. But the racist thing is just bullshit. I used a word that was taboo. And I used that word because it was taboo. I was pissed off about some black people that were trying to rob me. I wanted to insult those particular black people. I didn’t want to support racism. When I used the word faggots, I wasn’t coming down on gays. I was coming down on an element of gays. I had just heard a story about a man who was released out of the L.A. County Jail with AIDS and he was hooking. I’ve had my share of dealings with aggressive gays, and I was bothered by it. The Bible says, 'Thou shalt not judge,' and I guess I made a judgment call, and it was an insult. The racist thing, that’s just stupid. I can understand how people would think that, but that’s not how I meant it. I believe that there’s always gonna be some form of racism—as much as we’d like there to be peace—because people are different. Black culture is different. I work with a black man every day [Earl Gabbidon, Rose’s bodyguard], and he’s one of my best friends. There are things he’s into that are definitely a 'black thing.' But I can like them. There are things that are that way. I think there always will be.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: racism, Homophobia, faggot, nigger, black thing, AIDS
“There’s a certain pride in knowing that you achieved what you came to do.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Pride, Goals, Achievement
“We’d been told we’re the perfect house band for David Duke’s America. And it’s like, fuck David Duke, I don’t like being associated with that. I asked the crowd: 'Is that what you get out of this, that we’re racists and you’re supporting it? ‘Cause that’s not the case.' I asked: 'Is that all you’re getting out of the record—‘Do cocaine and party’? ‘Cause if that’s the case, I’m gonna go home. That’s not why we’re here.' I asked the crowd about those things. I got some real interesting responses. The way they reacted was a little bit different than normal. There was silence in different places and cheering in others. You could tell that they were thinking for a minute.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: david duke, racism
“I pretty much follow my own internal clock, and I perform better later at night. Nothing seems to work out for me until later at night. And it is our show. I don’t want to make people sit around and wait—it drives me nuts. That hour-and-a-half or two-hour time period that I’m late going onstage is living hell, because I’m wishing there was any way on earth I could get out of where I am and knowing I’m not going to be able to make it. I’m late to everything. I’ve always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half-hour late and says on the side, like in gold, SORRY I’M LATE. ”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: lateness, chronically late, Procrastination Is Bad
“Well, I think that the way the media covered it made me look completely responsible for it. I don’t think I was the last straw. I think that the people who decided to start throwing stuff were the last straw. We have a big problem with the people that were at that concert. We gave them a ninety-minute show. We gave them what we were contracted to do, and we gave it good. They wanted more, and they felt that they could just have it, regardless of what happened to us or how we felt about it. When we say, 'Fuck St. Louis,' we’re talking about the people that tore up the place. They know who they are—we’re not talking about anybody else. Whether I jumped off the stage for a camera or not, that’s not a good enough reason to tear the place down. It was announced that we would come back onstage, and they were more into the riot than even the band playing.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview
“My growth was stopped at two years old. And when they talk about Axl Rose being a screaming two-year-old, they're right. There's a screaming two-year-old who's real pissed off and hides and won't show himself that often, even to me. Because I couldn't protect him. And the world didn't protect him.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Growth, Developmental Psychology, tantrum, infant
“We got in trouble for fun.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose
Tagged: Causing Trouble, Messing Up, Axl Rose, appetite for destruction, axl rose interview
“I really don't want drugs around me now. I'm not necessarily against the use of drugs, they just don't fit in my life right now.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose
Tagged: Drugs, Axl Rose, appetite for destruction, axl rose interview
“I'm not into gay or bisexual experiences. But that's hypocritical of me, because I'd rather see two women together than just about anything else. That happens to be my personal, favorite thing.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose
Tagged: Homsexuality, Lesbians, Sex, Axl Rose, appetite for destruction, axl rose interview
“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. You can be flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, but you're a commercial burger flipper.”
— Axl Rose, Axl Rose: The Rolling Stone Interview
Tagged: Advice, How To Succeed As An Artist, Everything is Commercial, Life Under Capitalism, Axl Rose, appetite for destruction, axl rose interview
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