Duff McKagan

Quotes

- Anyway all we wanted to fucking say is thank you so fucking much to all the fucking jurors for this fucking award. - Duff & Slash Music Award 90

- I left my dogs in LA, at home but we talk on the phone. - Duff 92

- The real mind of GNR is Slash - Duff 88

- The kids identify themself in this band coz it's honest. - Duff 91

- All the custom that the chorist wear on stage I designed them - Duff 92

- I am a musician not a rockstar. - Duff 93

- We are not guardian angel of anybody. We only play authentic, nasty rock and roll - Duff 89

- This is the kind of band that will probably always have something strange going on in it. People don't really understand us. - Duff

- That's always been the philosophy of the band, that we'd be around for a long time, not just a flash in the pan. - Duff

- It takes a serious mother to be in this band! It could only be the five of us, nobody else. Ever. - Duff

- It's nobody's business but ours. We're just ... We're a rock and roll band. We'll make the music. But if I fuck a cow, that's nobody's business, man. Nobody's business but mine, you know? - Duff

- I consider myself pretty stable in the band. I try to make things work musically. I kind of consider myself the musical director of the band - trying to keep everything together. - Duff

- We're never really rude to anyone unless they're rude first. Then, I guess, we can be more rude than an avarage person. - Duff

- My old man gave me some whiskey when I was real little. It was some Hawaiian whiskey, and it had this long name. He said "take a swig and pronounce the name". After about 4 swigs I couldn't pronounce the name because I was too drunk. - Duff

- Sex Pistols bass player, Sid Vicious, is my only influence, coz he was the coolest bass player ever. - Duff

- I love making people happy and I think I'm basically a good person ...despite what you might read about me! - Duff

- The first record I bought myself since I had Led Zeppelin and stuff from my sister, was Kiss Alive. My first concert was Aerosmith. - Duff

- Every bad I'd ever been in before, there'd always be one person, or two, that wasn't cutting it. With this band, it was finally like "OK, this is it." You could just feel it at first rehearsal. It just felt right. - Duff

- We are not the kind of guys to really change our ways. - Duff

- I was playing clubs when I was in 9th and 10th grade. I wouldn't get home until 3 in the morning. I was couldn't get up to go to school, so I dropped out. - Duff

- We never thought we'd be the kind of band it would be hip to like. - Duff
- I got a Kramer endorsement and they are sending me all kinds of shit. But I'm still using my Fender, the same bass I've always used. I have like 6 basses, but I just use that one. - Duff