Queen Quotes
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I am an optimist and I always think the good will come out.
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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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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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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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They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.
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When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
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You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every 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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Gay as a daffodil.
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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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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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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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Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
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It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.
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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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You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
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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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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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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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Amazing uke playing to be relished.