Queen Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
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You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
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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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It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.
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I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
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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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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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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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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'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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I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.
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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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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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I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.
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Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.
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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
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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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When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.