Duff McKagan Quotes

#1. A shake-out cruise could be just what Guns N' Roses needed.

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#2. Far fewer people know that Slash is also a world-class Russian crouch-down-and-kick-your-legs-out dancer. And

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#3. Slash was already in a league of his own and watching him play guitar was a "holy shit" moment.

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#4. Don't be a pussy. don't shy away from a situation just because it's tough. if you need to protect the one you love or things are tough at work ... pin those ears back and remember who the fuck you are.

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#5. (We wrote "Sweet Child o' Mine" later, and the "where do we go now" coda of that song actually was just sort of tacked on, which is one of the reasons we didn't anticipate it being a hit - or even a single, for that matter.)

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#6. When it comes to your values and personality, you are what you do in adverse situations.

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#7. Life is not a journey to the grave With the intention of arriving safely in a well-preserved body, But rather to skid in sideways Thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow, what a ride!

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#8. Fortunately I never came to enjoy the effect of heroin for its own sake, but floating away on a silk pillow was infinitely nicer than grinding my teeth in a drunken, paranoid stupor at the end of a coke binge.

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#9. (we had added an unruly pug somewhere along the way)

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#10. Steven Adler was really nice, and expressed himself with an infectious, almost childlike enthusiasm. He said, Listen, we're going to be great - going to get the feet stompin' and the hands clappin'.

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#11. The music had the ability to conjure images in my head and help me drown out the tension and noise I was trying to avoid at my house.

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#12. Grace has already told me and her mom to stay completely invisible. Her exact words: "You're not invited.

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#13. We rehearsed at the space twice a day regardless of anything else going on in any of our lives. Many of the songs that made up Appetite and Lies - as well as more than a few from Use Your Illusion - came together in this back-alley lair. When

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#14. Yes, confidence was knowing I could do anything. But, I realized, confidence must always be rooted in work. In sweat. In pain-good pain. And in honesty.

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#15. TRY TO LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AT HOME BEFORE BED. DID I DO EVERYTHING TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY TODAY? WAS I HONEST ABOUT EVERY ACTION AND WORD SPOKEN TODAY? REALLY? WHO YOU LYIN' TO? YOURSELF? THAT'S PRETTY LAME. I'LL TRY HARDER TOMORROW. JUST DON'T USE! DON'T. USE.

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#16. You dirty so and so.

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#17. We had a tour bus! We had a couple of real hotel rooms! And catering! Fuck, yes!

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#18. a couple years prior we were hitchhiking to a gig with no gear. Now we were on a fucking tour bus. We could eat for free at a catered backstage buffet. Life was good.

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#19. Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in his own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

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#20. we ended up closing the show with the cover song we had tried during sound check that afternoon, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door.

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#21. I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first time I could take these crazy thoughts in my head and actually get them out. This little device became my journal on the road.

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#22. Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

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#23. took something serious away from it. I told myself I would never get so deep into my cups that I wouldn't be able to play.

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#24. Place pain in a steel box and let it float away," Benny would say. "Pain will always be there - it's how you deal with it that matters.

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#25. When I was thirty, I asked a nurse to let me die. In a couple days, I'm going to play "Cheap Sunglasses" alongside the man who wrote it.

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#26. At the end of the European leg, our lead guitar player pulled a knife on our bus driver in England. I

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#27. we did an acoustic set at CBGB on October 30, 1987, where we debuted "Patience.

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#28. That's right: Duff McKagan, king of beers, viscount of vodka, count of coke. Champion of the world. Asshole.

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#29. How peaceful death seemed, a simple and beautiful way out. Take me down. Take me home. Paradise ...

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#30. loyal people have a mom they think is a saint.

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#31. I guess we can all look back and see things in our lives that we could or should have done differently - and better - and

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#32. We had no idea it would be the last time we would ever be able to walk around L.A. without feeling like we were in a fishbowl, isolated and on display.

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#33. Sometimes we have to face things, face people, face situations in life that we don't like to deal with," he said. "It can feel like everybody is out to get you. That's when you have to refuse to succumb, make people realize you are a force - but you also have to give and take in these situations.

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#34. Helicopters - "ghetto birds," as the other residents called them -

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