Freddie Mercury Quotes
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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Remixes are so much fun. For me, it's like this great release of energy. I like producing stuff for myself, but I also enjoy making music that wouldn't really suit my own vibe.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.
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Obviously, you want to honour the sound of your music, but I'm definitely open to trying new things and making myself use a different palette of sounds.
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I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I wish the music business was a much easier thing, but you know what? Nothing easy is worth anything. So it is what it is. There comes a time when things can work out and everybody can be happy. And that's what it's all about in the end - everybody being happy and working it out.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
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I don't consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.
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When you go into a fight saying you're probably going to lose, you're probably going to lose.
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I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.
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I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay.
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We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
