Queen Quotes
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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.
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One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.
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I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.
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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.
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A good video can make all the difference.
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The bigger the better; in everything.
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I've always been a fidget. I can never sit still for long.
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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.
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What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
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The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.
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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.
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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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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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When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.
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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.
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I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
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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.
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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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I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
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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.
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Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
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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.
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I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.
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On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
