Freddie Mercury Quotes
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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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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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The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.
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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 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 am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
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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 think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.
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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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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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Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
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I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.
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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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If it's planned, it's boring.
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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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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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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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Get on your bikes and ride!
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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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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.
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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 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 i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.