Queen Quotes
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The bigger the better; in everything.
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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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We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.
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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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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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I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
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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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One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.
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I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.
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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
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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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I've always been a fidget. I can never sit still for long.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
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When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.