Brian May Quotes
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I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
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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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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
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The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.
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I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis
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The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
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Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer
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My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.
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Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do
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In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
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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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Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.
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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 go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal
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There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
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I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.
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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 into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
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You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
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The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.
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We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
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I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
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I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
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Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
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I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?
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Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.
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