Brian May Quotes
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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.
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Amazing uke playing to be relished.
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Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
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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 tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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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 really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
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My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
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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.
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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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A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.
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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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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
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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.