Axl Rose
Axl Rose
W. Axl Rose is an American singer, songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, a position he has held since its inception in 1985. Due to his powerful and wide vocal range and energetic live performances, Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including Rolling Stone and NME...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth6 February 1962
CityLafayette, IN
CountryUnited States of America
Axl Rose quotes about
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.
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.
I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.
There was a much more self-destructive nature in 'Appetite.' It was a going-for-it-at-all-cost thing that worked then.
I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.
As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life, there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives, etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises... or not! Ha!
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.
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.
When I was a kid, I was told rock n' roll wasn't music. It wasn't art. Queen was my proof, my evidence, that these people were wrong - and they meant everything to me.
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.
If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane
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.
Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way.
Fear is where there is no love. Love is where there is no fear.