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No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.
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Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.
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Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
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I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.
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I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
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I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
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I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.
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Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
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I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out.
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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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When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.
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I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
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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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We’re confident people will take to us, because although the camp image has already been established by people like Bowie and Bolan we are taking it to another level. The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy. We want to shock and be outrageous instantly.
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They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.
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Gay as a daffodil.
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My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.
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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
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At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.
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Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
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There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
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I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.
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Montserrat Caballé is sensational. She has that same kind of emotion as Aretha Franklin. The way she delivers a song is so very natural. It's a very different gift.
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I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.