Queen Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 like to be surrounded by splendid things.
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Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
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Gay as a daffodil.
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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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I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.
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Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.
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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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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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I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
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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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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
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I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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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.