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.
FREDDIE MERCURYI’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.
More Freddie Mercury Quotes
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We don’t do it for the money, we do it for the music.
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Whatever I am doing, I am not doing it for money but for music.
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I don’t want to die, so sometimes I think it would have been better if I had never been born.
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I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.
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I always knew I was a star. And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
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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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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It’s a theatrical event.
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Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
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In terms of love, you’re not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I’m a very tragic person. But there’s always an element of humor at the end.
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I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.
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I think we are all princes of the universe.
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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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When I’m dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
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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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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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