Queen Quotes
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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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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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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 was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.
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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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My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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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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We don’t want to become old, rich and useless.
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Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.
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To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.
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Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
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I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
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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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You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.
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It's a nonstop schedule, really. I had lost myself somewhere.
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I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.
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The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
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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 think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.
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We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
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We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.
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At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.