Brian May Quotes
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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
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Amazing uke playing to be relished.
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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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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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Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.
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My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
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Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
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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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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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Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
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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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I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.
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At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.
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Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.
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Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
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A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.
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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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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 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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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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I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
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I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.
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A good video can make all the difference.
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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.