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This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.
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You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time.
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Gay as a daffodil.
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I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
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You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.
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I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out.
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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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Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
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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.
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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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After people like Lennon and Dylan, I think David Bowie brought a very modernistic intelligence and the necessity for change. I think he was completely positive, certainly through one and a half decades of completely overriding influence, in the best of popular music, and I take my bloody hat off to him!
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People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.
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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 despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
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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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There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.
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I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
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They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.
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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
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My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.
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Amazing uke playing to be relished.
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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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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.