Slash famous quotes

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.
-- Slash

#Pace #Want #Vices

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.
-- Slash

#Unique #Ideas #Guitar

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

#Want #Rockstars #Intersections

[the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."
-- Slash

#Book #Advice #Mind

One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.
-- Slash

#Fun #Men #Wisconsin

That's always stuck with me, with music. I've never really gotten jaded about it. I've always loved music for the sake of doing it, and the longer I do it, the more I like it. Hopefully, I'll be able to have that same point of view in this business, or at least with doing this.
-- Slash

#Views #Able #Sake

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

#Names #Cry #Said

When I see footage of Guns N' Roses, I see that fu**ing hunger and attitude. You could not f**k with those five guys. It was just raw. It was this lean, hungry thing on its way up. It was as sincere as any rock 'n' roll that I've ever heard, and I'm proud of that.
-- Slash

#Attitude #Gun #Rocks

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

#Guitar

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.
-- Slash

#Life Changing #Sadness #Fate

I got the name Slash because I used to work in a grocery store and I was in charge of reducing prices for really big sales.
-- Slash

#Names #Stores #Bigs

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.
-- Slash

#Thinking #Years #World

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

#Together #Tomorrow #Forget

If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.
-- Slash

#Dinner #Hendrix #Hanging Out

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

#Jeans #Forgiving #Pants

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

#Choices #Fickle #Demise

Axl and I came from completely different backgrounds. Because of that we made an interesting pair trying to figure each other out.
-- Slash

#Interesting #Trying #Pairs

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

#Thinking #Hearing #Band

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.
-- Slash

#Guitar #Self #Expression

You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.
-- Slash

#Good Night #Emotional #Thinking

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

#Vocabulary #Language #Failing

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

#Guitar #Two #Musician

I do all my interviews on the toilet.
-- Slash

#Toilets #Interviews

Experiencing yourself out of context, divorced from your usual point of view, skews your perspective – it’s like hearing your voice on an answering machine. It’s almost like meeting a stranger; or discovering a talent you never knew you had.
-- Slash

#Views #Voice #Perspective

I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.
-- Slash

#Rock And Roll #Rocks #Dixie

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.
-- Slash

#Destiny #Thinking #Giving

I just play, just you know, If i just sit down with the guitar and just do whatever for, you know, an half an hour or an hour whatever. That's pretty much, that should do it for me.
-- Slash

#Player #Guitar #Half

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

#Music #Musical #Stifling

The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver.
-- Slash

#Song #Gun #Thinking

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing.
-- Slash

#Guitar #Rocks #Together

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.
-- Slash

#Mom #Costumes #My Mom

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

#Want #Attention #Draws

A lot of vices that I've had over the years were always to make up for some sort of character deficiency, one of them being shyness.
-- Slash

#Character #Years #Vices

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
-- Slash

#Dad #Guitar #Rock And Roll

I dont believe in having regrets.
-- Slash

#Regret #Believe

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

#Attitude #Fun #Rocks

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.
-- Slash

#Music #Classical Music #Mark

... that's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you..
-- Slash

#Music #People #Bars

I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my way; I've gotten clean my way; And I'm still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.
-- Slash

#Taken #Play #Guitar

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.
-- Slash

#Real #Nice #Crazy

Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.
-- Slash

#Believe #Gun #Together

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.
-- Slash

#Gun #Thinking #Rose

I'm not ridiculously wealthy, but I don't squander money either.
-- Slash

#Wealthy

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

#Vocabulary #Risk #Existence

There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I'm completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.
-- Slash

#Opposites #People #Drunk

It's not something you can find. There's a moment you arrive at --- there's no words for it. A bunch of people come together at this place where a note hits your heart and your brain tells your finger where to go. It's an otherworldly thing, like when a painter gets the right combination of colors together.
-- Slash

#Heart #Color #People

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

#Sex #Rose #Playing Music

As soon as I could put together the, you know, three or four notes that made up, like, sort of a rock and roll lick, you know, like a Chuck Berry kind of thing, I was off and running. Just completely taken over.
-- Slash

#Running #Taken #Rock And Roll

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

#Player