Freddie Mercury Quotes
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We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.
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We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
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I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
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This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.
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Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct to keep this information private to date to protect the privacy of those around me. However, the time has come now for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth and I hope that everyone will join with my doctor and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease.
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When the whole point of Queen was to be original.
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I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.
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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
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We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.
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Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.
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Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars.
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I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
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I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.
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A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it.
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I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.
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The bigger the better; in everything.
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One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.
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I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?
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It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
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Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.
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And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.
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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.