Top 50 Slash Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Slash

2. “Guitars are like women. You’ll never get them totally right.”

— Slash

3. “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.”

— Slash

4. “If I ever go bald, I’ll kill myself.”

— Slash

5. “I once asked Axl why he left the ‘E’ off his name. He started crying and said he thought he’d spelled it right.”

— Slash

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

— Slash

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

— Slash

8. “It’s not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.”

— Slash

9. “I’ve always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I’ve taken myself to the edges of life my way; I’ve gotten clean my way; And I’m still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.”

— Slash

10. “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.”

— Slash

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

— Slash

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

— Slash

13. “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.”

— Slash

14. “I do all my interviews on the toilet.”

— Slash

15. “If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn’t be over dinner.”

— Slash

16. “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.”

— Slash

17. “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.”

— Slash

18. “There are people who have an image of me as being rude and inconsiderate. But I’m completely the opposite, because I was raised not to be. I might have been tripping over myself drunk, but I was always courteous.”

— Slash

19. “Risk isn’t a word in my vocabulary. It’s my very existence.”

— Slash

20. “My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.”

— Slash

21. “Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there’s some sort of musical explosion.”

— Slash

22. “I never want to draw attention to myself, but that’s all I do.”

— Slash

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

— Slash

24. “I don’t think there’s anything better than hearing your favorite band live.”

— Slash

25. “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.”

— Slash

26. “I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.”

— Slash

27. “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.”

— Slash

28. “A day doesn’t go by where I don’t get surprised by something.”

— Slash

29. “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.”

— Slash

30. “I’ve been on the road for so long that it’s a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.”

— Slash

31. “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.”

— Slash

32. “I am married and I have two kids now, and I love them all to death. So I am trying to put all that together and maintain the same pace I’ve been keeping. But really, I relish what we do. A year and a half sounds like a cakewalk to me.”

— Slash

33. “When we weren’t being transcendent we specialized in self-inflicted disaster.”

— Slash

34. “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.”

— Slash

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

— Slash

36. “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.”

— Slash

37. “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.”

— Slash

38. “I’m not ridiculously wealthy, but I don’t squander money either.”

— Slash

39. “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.”

— Slash

40. “If you were a kid and you wanted to come out and make a statement now, you’d have to really dig deep to find something that no one has exposed already.”

— Slash

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

— Slash

42. “I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that’s what I’d end up doing.”

— Slash

43. “People want you to produce records. They don’t care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don’t want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that’s it.”

— Slash

44. “The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren’t really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era.”

— Slash

45. “I love playing music as much as if not more so than I did when I was 19; that compared to most of my peers is pretty surprising. I wake up every day and get really excited about doing stuff that I have been doing for the last 30 years. I just love it.”

— Slash

46. “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.”

— Slash

47. “I was the one that allegedly “quit and joined my old band.” That wasn’t true. But it was said so matter-of-factly on the Internet that the guys weren’t really sure what I was up to.”

— Slash

48. “When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.”

— Slash

49. “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.”

— Slash

50. “I was fascinated by the machinations of performance back then and I still am now. A stage full of instruments awaiting a band is exciting to me. The sight of a guitar still turns me on. There is an unstated wonder in both of them: they hold the ability to transcend reality given the right set of players.”

— Slash