Queen Quotes
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The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
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I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
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In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.
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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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Gay as a daffodil.
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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 am an optimist and I always think the good will come out.
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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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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
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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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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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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 got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
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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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About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
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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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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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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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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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They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.