Brian May Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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I don't want to put my fate in country music fans; I'm too stubborn.
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Any time you can give consumers more of what they want, it's a good thing. Unbundling the album is a good thing. In the case of music - because it is content that you can slice into songs - doing that is of huge benefit to consumers.
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.
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I believe you have to make things happen.
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To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do - for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.
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It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most.
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I value my independence a lot, and the thought of having to lose that due to age or any other reason terrifies me.
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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
