Freddie Mercury Quotes
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In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
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I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown.
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I'm without a doubt a producer first. The lyrics happen towards the tail-end of the process, mainly because they're more stream-of-consciousness. It's very rare that I'm going to tell a really concrete story.
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I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
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As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.
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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
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My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
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You know what, I am not gonna lie, that Taylor Swift 'Trouble' song? I can't resist that song. Her melodies are very catchy.
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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
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The Smiths hasn't been equaled. That goes for the composition of the songs, the lyrics, and the performance.
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I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.
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The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against others.
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Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.
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Hope, purpose and determination are not merely mental states. They have electrochemical connections that affect the immune system.
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I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
