Slash Quotes (Best Sayings & Song Quotes)

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

So when I got to be about 13 or 14, I started listening - even though my parents music was way cool - to contemporary hard rock at that time, which was Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Ted Nugent and all that, and that's just where I came from.

[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."

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.

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

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

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

I dont believe in having regrets.

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

I do all my interviews on the toilet.

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

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.

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

It seems like a lot of what was going on when I quit is still going on.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't believe in having regrets.

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.

I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

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

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.

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

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.

Drugs and sex go hand in hand when you're a rock and roll musician. Whereas if I were a violinist, it might be a little different.

I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

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.

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.

I allow myself one nice car.

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.

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.

And, 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.

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

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.

If I ever go bald, I'll kill myself.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

And, so, when I picked up the guitar, suddenly, just playing a couple of notes really, really spoke to me. It was almost like I should have been doing it prior to that. You know, it was something that just felt really natural.

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

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

I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more.

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.

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

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

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

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

A day doesn't go by where I don't get surprised by something.

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

I'm not overly greedy.

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

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.

I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage.