Queen Quotes
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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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I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out.
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I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
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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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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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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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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 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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Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
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I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.
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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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We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.
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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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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
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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 don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.
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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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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 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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I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.