Slash Quotes

You can't wait around for destiny to give you what you think you deserve, you have to earn it, even if you think you've paid your dues.

Guitars are like women. You'll never get them totally right.

It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.

Rock n' roll is about attitude and rebellion. It's supposed to be fun and spontaneous.

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

Risk isn't a word in my vocabulary. It's my very existence.

Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

I dont believe in having regrets.

If I ever go bald, I'll kill myself.

Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.

GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT

Once you’ve lived a little you will find that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you in one way or another. It may be today, tomorrow, or years from now, but it happens; usually when you least expect it, usually in a form that’s pretty different from the original. Those coincidental moments that change your life seem random at the time but I don’t think they are. At least that’s how it’s worked out in my life. And I know I’m not the only one.

Notes and chords have become my second language and, more often than not, that vocabulary expresses what I feel when language fails me.

A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

I guess you could say there are two Slashes. There's the crazy, rock-and-roll Slash, he's wild. And then there's the real Slash- he collects miniature soaps and treats his hookers real nice.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.

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.

If it had been any different, if I had been born just one minute later, or been in the wrong pace at the right time or vice versa, the life that I've lived and come to love would not exist. And that is a situation that I would not want to consider in the slightest.

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

Restlessness is a fickle catalyst; it can drive you to achieve or it can coax your demise, and sometimes the choice isn't yours

I don't think there's anything better than hearing your favorite band live.

For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated.

An anagram of Axl Rose is oral sex. Why do I know? Because when I'm not playing music I love solving erotic jumbles.

That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.