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.
FREDDIE MERCURYPut out the good and keep the bad – don’t believe all you read in the Bible.
More Freddie Mercury Quotes
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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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Onstage, I am a devil. But I’m hardly a social reject.
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Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it.
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Success is my breathing space. I brought it on myself. I will price it, I will cash it, I can take it or leave it. Loneliness is my hiding place, breastfeeding myself. What more can I say? I have swallowed the bitter pill, I can taste it. Life is real.
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We don’t do it for the money, we do it for the music.
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I’m a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that’s often destructive both to me and others.
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We are the Champions.
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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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Too much love will kill you just as sure as none at all.
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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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I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.
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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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The more you open up, the more you get hurt. So basically, I’m just riddled with scars and I just don’t want any more.
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The others don’t like my interviews. And frankly, I don’t care much for theirs.
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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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