Axl Rose Quotes

I usually have an idea of how I want a song to sound, but I don't always know how to get there.

I try to imagine what the greatest song I could ever write would sound like, and then try to do it.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

There's many, many ways to write a song. But generally, sitting down at a table and writing is not one of them.

I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

It's very demanding to make up your own music.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

You can't help but have ideas when you're inspired musically.

I compose melodies in my head and then interpret them musically with my guitar and keep them recorded. The guitar helps me to build unique chord structures on simple melodies.

When I'm writing, I'm focusing more on just the basic melody and the lyrics.

I'm not one of those guys who can just take a guitar into a room and come out with a song. I need all my instruments dotted around.

I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.

You're always thinking about making new music.

The composer makes plans, music laughs.

When I'm playing guitar, I just try and put those words into lyrics and just try a few things. It's all over the place.

I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.

I don't write songs.

I love originating shows and originating songs - there is nothing better than being the first one to get to do a song.

I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.

We all love to sing, and when we sit down to write a song I think it kind of shows itself to us.

No, no, the songs write themselves, almost.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.