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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 like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good 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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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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Who wants to live forever?
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I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
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If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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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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I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.
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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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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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Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
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We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
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On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
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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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The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
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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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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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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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But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.
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I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.
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If it's planned, it's boring.
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Get on your bikes and ride!