I’m a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that’s often destructive both to me and others.
FREDDIE MERCURYI won’t be a rockstar. I will be a legend.
More Freddie Mercury Quotes
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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.
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You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolization and millions of pounds. But it’s prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.
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When we began, we approached it the way we did because we were not prepared to be out-of-work musicians, ever. We said either take it on as a serious commodity or don’t do it at all.
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In fact, we all need danger and excitement.
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I think we are all princes of the universe.
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Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
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Onstage, I am a devil. But I’m hardly a social reject.
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I’m as gay as a daffodil, my dear!
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You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.
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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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We’re a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It’s unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear.
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Does it mean this, does it mean that that’s all anybody wants to know? I’d say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it’s there!
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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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I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.
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We’re a bit flashy, but the music’s not one big noise.
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