Queen Quotes
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Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.
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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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Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.
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Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!
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I wouldn't do go to another band.
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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
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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.
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I've always been a fidget. I can never sit still for long.
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I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
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It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
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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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Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.
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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.
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A good video can make all the difference.
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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
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A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it.
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Who wants to live forever?
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...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!
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Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
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I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?
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Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
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The bigger the better; in everything.
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We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.