Freddie Mercury Quotes
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Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
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The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.
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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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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 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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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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Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
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Who wants to live forever?
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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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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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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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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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I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.
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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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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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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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Get on your bikes and ride!
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I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.
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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.