Freddie Mercury Quotes
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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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I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
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Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
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I dress to kill, but tastefully.
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I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.
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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
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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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Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!
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People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
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I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
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Who wants to live forever?
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I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.
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I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.
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It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
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We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
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One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
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Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
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In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
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If it's planned, it's boring.
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I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.
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Get on your bikes and ride!
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Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!
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When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.