Axl Rose Quotes

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.

Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do, and then just go for it.

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

I've never tried to be anything but me. Even with Slipknot, where it can almost feel like a roll sometimes, it's still a part of who I am. It's a very strong and passionate part of who I am, and I'm lucky enough to have an audience that is really open to what I do.

I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.

Tons of musicians who I love are imprisoned by their identity. That can be totally fine because they are so amazing in their technique, but for me, I'm a little too restless for that.

I can't just sing karaoke; I can't do anything to try to sound like other people. I have to find what I naturally sound like and emphasize that.

I'm happy that I don't have to do covers anymore, because that's not what I do.

I never called myself a jazz singer. I just call myself a vocalist because I love to sing all kinds of things.

I learned a long time ago with guitars and amps or anything else, whatever band I'm in, I'm just going to sound like me anyway, so I just stay true to that.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

Everybody comes to film differently; everybody has different backgrounds. Just find whatever your lane is naturally. Don't try to force yourself into someone else's vision or try to tell a story that you're not passionate about.

It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

I can only sing songs my way. I don't know any other way.

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.

It's really tough to make a name for yourself without compromising and without fitting yourself into a real specific mold. When I made the choice that I would be involved in every aspect of music and not necessarily make music for radio or MTV, I was saying, 'OK, this is me. You decide who it is.'

Basically I just had to say, 'Screw everyone around me - from now on I'm just gonna play what I think is important to me and our music.' So I gave the big finger to all the current trends in technical wizardry, and just went off and did what I felt was best for the songs.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

I'm very rarely interested in genres. As long as I feel I can put my DNA out there in the ideology, it works for me.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.