Slash quotes

Slash is a British-American musician and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Guns N' Roses. His signature top hat and electrifying guitar solos have made him an iconic figure in rock music. He continues to influence generations of guitarists and music fans worldwide. Here are 17 of his quotes:

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

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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.

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

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

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I don't believe in having regrets.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

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

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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.

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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.

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