Queen Quotes
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The bigger the better; in everything.
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Who wants to live forever?
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I dress to kill, but tastefully.
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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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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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I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.
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I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.
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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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If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.
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I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
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I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
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Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.
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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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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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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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If it's planned, it's boring.
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The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
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Get on your bikes and ride!
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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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On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
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It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.
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One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
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I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride it where I like...; I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle...
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I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.