Ryan Ross Quotes

Man, I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

The misunderstanding out there is that we are a 'hard rock' band or a 'heavy metal' band. We've only ever been a rock n' roll band.

Lemmy Kilmeister is most certainly a rocker.

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

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.

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.

I ended up doing these other diverse things, but King Tuff is the thing I always wanted to come back to - just good, straightforward rock n' roll. That music is the most me, you know?

I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC.

It is, we wanted to make a record that reflected our love of Hard-Rock music and it is sort of Metal though we don't really describe ourselves as Metal.

Heart has always been a rock band. It's always been hard-rock.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And it's just boring. It's totally boring to me.

By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.

I think that Steve Perry will always be known as the singer of Journey. I have so much respect for him.

I have always been a big rock fan and remember dressing up as Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose for my high school Halloween disco when I was 17. My teacher painted tattoos on, and I wore a small leather waistcoat and not much else.

I listen to older music like AC/DC.

I wanted to be Paul Stanley or Gene Simmons.

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 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.

People love Axl [Rose] with the original band, they love him on his own but they want to see him with the original guys.

I’ve always loved Alice Cooper.

My first impression of Van Halen was that David Lee Roth was a god, and that so was Eddie.

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.