Layne Staley Quotes

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• I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go.

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  Want, Ifs, I Can

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• You my friend,I will defend,and if we change well, I love you anyway.

  Layne Staley

  Love You, Wells, My Friends

  "Song: "No Excuses" ("Jar of Flies")". 1994.

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  Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.

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  Drama, Strongest, Persons

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• I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. I didnt create myself, because I would have done a hell of a better job.

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  Jobs, Believe, Done

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• I'm not using drugs to get high like many people think. I know I made a big mistake when I started using this sh-. It's a very difficult thing to explain. My liver is not functioning and I'm throwing up all the time and shitting my pants. The pain is more than you can handle. It's the worst pain in the world. Dope sick hurts the entire body.

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  Hurt, Pain, Mistake

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• I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted.But no matter where I go, I still come home me.

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  Taken, Home, Perfect

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• My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

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  Titles, Talent, Habit

  "Alice in Chains: To Hell and Back". Interview with Jon Wiederhorn, www.rollingstone.com. February 8, 1996.

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• People have the right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you, but when I haven't talked to anyone in years, and every single article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this- that ain't my title...my bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and talents are my title.

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  Hurt, Dope, Years

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• If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead

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  Feel Better, Feels, My Own

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• I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.

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  Writing, Thinking, Thumbs Up

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• When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

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  Home, Stuck

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• I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied.

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  Wings, Has Beens, Denied

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• I'm dumbfounded by me all the time. Wow! What a.... thrill.....and a joy

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  Joy, Thrill, Wow

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• Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

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  Reality, Light, Addiction

  "Layne Staley Unchained". Pandemonium Magazine, Vol#29, April 1995.

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• We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

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  Real, Nice, People

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• My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

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  Girlfriend, Tired, Two

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• Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

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  Photography, Writing, Drawing

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• I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

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  Real, Suffering, Shy

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• We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

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  Kids, Eye, Shoes

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• The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

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  Song, Thinking, Down And

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• I wish I could just hug you all, but I'm not gonna.

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  Hug, Wish, Hug You

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• Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?

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  Powerful, Doe, Lips

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• I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

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  Pain, Thinking, Drug

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.

  Layne Staley

  Moving, Mean, Men

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• Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

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  Song, Careers, Perception

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