Queen Quotes
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When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
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My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.
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It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.
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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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When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
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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 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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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'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.
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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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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 like to be surrounded by splendid things.
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I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.
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I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
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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 an optimist and I always think the good will come out.
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They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.
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Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
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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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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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Amazing uke playing to be relished.
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I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.