Axel Rose Quotes

"My favorite cartoon characters are Metallica and Slash."

"There was a time when we were way more glam. I had the hair and full makeup and everything."

"I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot."

"Aerosmith are a tradition that I grew up with. They were the only band that the people who lived in my city in Indiana would accept wearing make-up and dressed cool."

"In a world he did not create, he will go through it as if it were his own. Half man, half beast, I don't know what it is but it's weird and it's pissed off and calls itself Slash."


"I used to use the Internet a lot, but I got tired of reading all the garbage on there about me. The Internet is just a huge garbage can."

"At times I enjoy writing and at other times I just hate it because it's definitely having to go back and experience some pain and express what you really feel."

"I've really learned to control myself. It used to be that I would get mad, break everything in the room, smack somebody in the face and then leave. Now I work real hard at trying to keep things cool and together."

"I guess I like who I am now. I'd like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would."

"Life sucks, but in a beautiful kind of way."

Quotes From Heavy Metal Artists

Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden): "If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off."

Lars Ulrich (Metallica): "Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth."

Dave Mustaine (Megadeth): "Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard."

Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead): "That was a great time, the summer of `71. I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it."

Rob Halford (Judas Priest): "There's two kinds of music: heavy metal and all the crap they play on radio and show on MTV"




James Hetfield (Metallica): "I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction."

Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath): "All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music."

Lita Ford (The Runaways): "I'm happy when I'm doing what I do best."

Ronnie James Dio (Black Sabbath & Dio): "Music, rock'n'roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everybody I know has their own generation."

Serj Tankian (System Of A Down): "Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can."

Scott Ian (Anthrax): " Why would heavy metal ever go away?"

Guns N' Roses Quotes

Axel Rose: "My favorite cartoon characters are Metallica and Slash."

Slash: "Sex and drugs go hand in hand when you're a rock & roll musician. If I were a violinist, it might be a different matter."

Izzy Stradlin: "We'd started out as a garage band and it became like a huge band, which was fine. But everything was so magnified, drug addictions, personalities, it just became too much."


Duff McKagen: "We are not the guardian angels of anybody. We only play authentic, nasty rock & roll."

Slash: "Axel is like a magnet for problems. I've never met anybody like him. He's the kind of guy that would get a toothbrush stuck down his throat because that particular toothbrush happened to be defective."

Axel Rose: "I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you, even when they like you."

Steven Adler: "Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame."

Duff Mckagen: "This is the kind of band that will probably always have something strange going on in it. People don't really understand us."

Slash: "My biggest regret is letting it get so big and letting it fall apart but then it wasn't necessarily my fault."

Axel Rose: "Some people say I got a chip on my shoulder."

Metallica Quotes

James Hetfield: "I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something."

Lars Ulrich: "Everytime we put a record out, we lose people that can't deal with the growth."

Kirk Hammett: "I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going."



Dave Mustaine: "Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard."

James Hetfield: "When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening."

Jason Newsted: "I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living."

Kirk Hammett: "We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances."

Cliff Burton: "Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do."

Robert Trujillo: "At the end of the day, it's all about the experience of having a good time and connecting with fans."

Lars Ulrich: "One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future."