Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It’s just a name. But it’s regal, obviously, and sounds splendid.
FREDDIE MERCURYWhen 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.
More Freddie Mercury Quotes
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I dress to kill, but tastefully.
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What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
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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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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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If we’re weird onstage, I don’t know what you’d call the Tubes.
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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’m very emotional. I think I may go mad in several years’ time.
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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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Boredom is the biggest disease in the world, darling.
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I’m as gay as a daffodil, my dear!
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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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Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don’t want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you’re going to meet down there.
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A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It’s a theatrical event.
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I do not have love does not mean I don’t have anybody.
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Whatever I am doing, I am not doing it for money but for music.
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In fact, we all need danger and excitement.
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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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I never thought of myself as the leader, the most important person, perhaps.
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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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I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
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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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If I die tomorrow I will not regret. I really did everything I could.
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I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
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We are all waiting for when there will be peace on earth and the end of the war. If this happens then it would be a miracle.
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The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it’s fabulous I don’t care how long it is.
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