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Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.
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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.
Brian May Queen
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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.
Brian May Queen -
Amazing uke playing to be relished.
Brian May Queen -
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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Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
Brian May Queen -
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
Brian May Queen
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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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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.
Brian May Queen -
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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A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.
Brian May Queen -
I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.
Brian May Queen
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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.
Brian May Queen -
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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We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.
Brian May Queen -
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.
Brian May Queen -
A good video can make all the difference.
Brian May Queen -
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
Brian May Queen
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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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I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
Brian May Queen -
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.
Brian May Queen -
What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
Brian May Queen