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When I was 14, I heard Otis Redding in a club local to me, and I was blown away. It leaped out at me and went straight to my heart. I set my sights on singing like that.
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Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
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I love it when people come from all over the place in separate vehicles, and they all come to this venue and become one energy. When that happens, it's a very magical thing. I think that helps the world go around, and it's what we do as performers - bring people together.
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After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.
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Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true.
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The thing about simplicity is it's not easy to achieve. To many, simplicity can mean repetitiveness and maybe even a lack of intelligence, those kind of things, but simple yet unique is the key.
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Nobody should attempt to do Freddie Mercury impressions.
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Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.
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I look at John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters, guys who had a fantastic longevity, and I learned something from them. They didn't try to sell records. They weren't saying, 'Ok, what can I write, what can I do in the studio that will sell?' They were just doing their thing, and people picked up on it. I like the idea of that.
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When I went down to London in '67, I had three things in mind: To survive, to find peace of mind, and to make music doing it.
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I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life.
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When Free came together, there was a creative magic around us, something unique and different.
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I always think the audience should be part of the show.
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Otis Redding, his voice, there was something spiritual and unworldly and at the same time, very deeply connected with the human connection and the way one feels about life in general, love, life, and everything, really.
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My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid.
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With Free, we had phased out all of the blues material and wanted to phase in all original material, and the only song that stayed from our blues past was 'The Hunter' by Albert King. People just loved that. And I said, 'We have to write a song that will top that - otherwise, what are we doing here?' That was the birth of 'All Right Now.'
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The one thing I loved about blues and soul was the way they taught the world how to express such deep feelings.
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I didn't 'join' Queen. We played together and found a strong connection, did a TV show, and carried on - then I suddenly realised I'd been with these guys for four years. If I'd been called up and asked to join, I would have said no.
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'When I'm Sixty-Four' hasn't worn well, but George Harrison's 'Within You Without You' is awesome.
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I'm a big fan of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac.
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I loved the 'Free Spirit' tour and the guys who helped create the magic: Pete Bullick, Rich Newman, Ian Rowley and Gerard 'G' Louis.
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I've always been a Jeff Beck fan. Who isn't? He is in a league of his own.
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I've been influenced by so many great people , like Sam Moore, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, so many great blues and soul artists that I completely revere. So it's strange for me, actually, to hear somebody say, 'Oh, I was deeply influenced by your music.'
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I have a secret weapon. My wife Cynthia is very good at keeping me in shape. She's very good for me. She's the best thing that happened to me.
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