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| "We don't especially go out to play heavy music, or light music - it's just our kind of music." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "I like leather. I rather fancy myself as a black panther." ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "Why are you wasting your time doing this? You should do more original material. You should be more demonstrative in the way that you put the music across. If I was your singer that's what I'd be doing." ~ (FM to BM & RT prior to joining their band) ~ And the rest as they say... is history! |
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| "Some bands in our position might like to take it all in stride, but we're still like kids, we get very excited." ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "Freddie's just his natural self: just a poof really!" ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained. I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film." ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
| "They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something." ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
| "This tour will be bigger than bigness itself. It will make Ben Hur look like the Muppets." ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "I'm so powerful on stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man." ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "People are apprehensive when they meet me. They think I'm going to eat them. But underneath it all, I'm quite shy." ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "I don't pretend to understand the workings of the journalistic mind." ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "The reason we're successful darling? My overall charisma, of course!" ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "We just don't want to be seen to fail, that's what keeps us going." ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "This shitty guitar only knows three chords!" ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "The rest of us played okay, but Freddie was out there and took it to another level. It wasn't just Queen fans - he connected with everyone." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "We just don't want to be seen to fail, that's what keeps us going." ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow." ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "We're pretty proud of what we've done as a whole." ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear!" ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "I thought we would be huge - and we were." ~ Freddie Mercury~ |
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| "It was the one day (Live Aid) that I was proud to be involved in the music business. A lot of days you certainly don't feel that!" ~ John Deacon ~ |
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| "I like to ridicule myself, I don't take myself too seriously. I wouldn't wear these clothes if I was serious. The one thing that keeps me going is that I laugh at myself." ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "No one ever really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage." ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "The demand for us to tour is getting to be a pain in the ass!" ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "I would have loved to talk to them (the sex pistols) but they wouldn't have listened at the time, because we were something which punk was reacting against." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "I've got some old sci-fi books and magazines which I browse through from time to time. Maybe there are things up there in space watching us. I wouldn't find that surprising at all." ~ Roger Taylor ~ |
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| "I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "We don't do enough live shows these days, and I'd like to do more. I'll remember Live Aid till the day I die." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "On the first few albums, the songs would grow into strange shapes." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!" ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others." ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "Criticism used to hurt me when I thought it could affect our careers. Nowadays, it's all irrelevant. We know the opinions of people that matter to us, and critics don't fall under that heading." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "After three albums, people thought we were driving around in Rolls-Royce's already." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "Hello again my beauties - is it happening?" ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "I want my privacy, and I feel I've given a lot for it. It's like Greta Garbo, isn't it? Virgo, same star sign." ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |
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| "Geldof called Live Aid a jukebox, so it seemed obvious to us to simply play the hits and get off." ~ Brian May ~ |
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| "It was OK, but we had our various fisticuffs." ~ (Freddie Mercury about 'The Miracle') ~ |
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| "If I tried that on, people would start yawning, 'Oh God, here's Freddie saying he's gay because it's very trendy' " ~ Freddie Mercury ~ |