Slash Quotes

The scary thing is that this band was founded in 1988, and back then it was Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns and , like, 'What chick am I gonna be with tonight?' - it was that mentality, you know, around a keg.

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.

Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.

The release of 'Chinese Democracy' marks a historic moment in rock n' roll.

Van Halen was a huge influence on me, and 'Eruption' was the song that really leaped off that first Van Halen album.

I would never have thought I would see Axl Rose, someone who was so important to rock 'n' roll.

AC/DC 'Back in Black' - Those were my punk rock days.

Motley Crue was actually my gateway to heavy metal.

Oh my God, Guns N' Roses - it's like, jeez, that's what made me move out to Los Angeles. 'Welcome to the Jungle,' you know - it's been a huge inspiration for me.

I do remember being a kid and hearing Van Halen. My dad was always playing Van Halen in the car.

Guns N' Roses is a weighty subject, but in the same breath, I don't take it that seriously.

I used to love Deep Purple and Ian Paice.

I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives...whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones...or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold...it's out there.

I had found The Runaways and I had seen Foxes, and I decided I was just gonna become a juvie, like Cherie Currie.

We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.

Even when I was a kid, I always sort of identified myself with Keith Richards and Slash more than the singers of the bands.

I'd definitely like to see less twerking and more power chords.

I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together.

I'm an out and out basic man and AC/DC are one of the best rock'n'roll bands in the world, doing things just to the basics, you know.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.

When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock and roll was not just entertainment, it was the center of people's lives. When I was young, it was exciting and interesting.

Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.