Queen Quotes
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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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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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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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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
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They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.
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Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking Can't we give ourselves one more chance Why can't we give love that one more chance Why can't we give love Cause love's such an old fashioned word and love dares you to care for The people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves This is our last dance This is our last dance This is ourselves Under pressure
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Gay as a daffodil.
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You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
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It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.
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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 really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
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Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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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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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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When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
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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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Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
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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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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 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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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.