Brian May Quotes
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I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
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I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
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I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.
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There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.
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I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
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A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.
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Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.
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I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.
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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
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To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.
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We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
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You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.
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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.
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I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.
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Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.
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I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
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A good video can make all the difference.
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We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.
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...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!
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Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
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When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.
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I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.