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Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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The bigger the better; in everything.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
Brian May Queen -
The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.
Brian May Queen -
It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
Brian May Queen
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And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
Brian May Queen -
I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.
John Deacon Queen -
If it's planned, it's boring.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
Freddie Mercury Queen -
I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.
Freddie Mercury Queen