Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Duff McKagan - Page 2

My twenties were tumultuous at best... I think.

Everybody in Seattle thought I was the chosen one, musically wise. You know, if anyone was going to make it, it was going to be that guy.

I have mutual funds. I have a lot of individual stocks. I'm across the board, really well diversified.

Music was going to be my thing. Was I going to make a living at it? That was kind of a joke. It was just my passion, and if I was broke doing my passion, so be it.

Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper.

You can't mass produce somebody's heart and soul. It's a very delicate thing.

That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.

It's a modern world we live in, with everything at our fingertips, and if it's not at our fingertips, you can dot-com anything.

Attending Seattle Central was an awesome experience - it taught me a lot about discipline in a great way.

Read books and keep informed. The conversation can get old if you don't have some good new topics to bring to the table.

We wrote the songs we wrote - we took from our own experiences, melded it together, and wrote what became 'Appetite For Destruction.'

My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.

Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore if it's gonna be good to an outside listener.

Writing's another expression of art, really, that I'm just kind of discovering as I go.

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

I came up in the punk rock scene of Seattle.

The thing is that business and success, and how hard it is, doesn't look any different whether you're playing a gig at eleven o'clock at night or you're going to work at nine in the morning at a law firm.

Lemmy Kilmeister is most certainly a rocker.

When I started going to business school, I started getting calls from my peers asking for my help. I thought, 'Well, there are a lot of people like me who make a bunch of money and just get so scared of it and don't know what to do with it.' I just didn't want to be 60 years old and broke.

I've been very fortunate. But rich? People make huge assumptions about the guys in Gn'R.

Being from a big band is great because you can do other bands.

I never had a personal beef with Axl, truth be told.

I do love the term 'rocker.' The word itself imbues a ton of imagery and romance. But I don't think a rocker needs to have AC/DC and Metallica and the Black Keys rumbling through their car speakers speeding headlong into the night.

I read Slash's book because we were on the road together with Velvet Revolver when that came out.

Never in my life have I thought, 'Man, I gotta get a Grammy.'

When you know you have a good song, when you're onstage, even if it's just a weird, basic energy, you know your song is good.

I think after 9/11, here in America, I saw something extraordinary. I saw neighbors looking after neighbors. I don't think anybody asked who anybody voted for. It was people taking care of other people.

Left to my own devices, I tend to go darker and weirder, and it's fun.

It's volatile with GNR. Every night, it's anarchy on stage. Who knows what's gonna happen? That's rock n' roll, man.

Rock n' roll is a volatile thing; at least, it's supposed to be.

I kind of feel bad that I don't know the names of the people in Girls Aloud!

I don't shop.

I made money in my 20s, became sober in my 30s, looked around, and didn't know who I could trust for money advice.

I've never seen 'The Simpsons.'

Personally, I had made a good amount of dough for a 30-year-old guy, but I didn't know a thing about money. I'm not a dumb guy, but I couldn't figure them out.

I have a wife and two kids.

Being in a band is the best place I can think of to be as up-front as possible. If you let something stew, it'll grow into a mountain of nonsensical black mud in no time.

There is definitely an art to the dance that is being in a band.

Going to talk to my little girl's teacher is a far cry from what people probably think I spend my time doing.

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.

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.

Playing in (the Neurotic Outsiders) with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many chicks. It was, like, 'Wow, John, really? So this is what it was like, huh?' And there would be like a couple guys with mohawks and a guy with, like, a jean jacket coming in to see me and Jonesy!

Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

I`m down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I`m basically a good person … despite what you might read about me.