I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now. — Brian May Copy Share Image
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions. — Brian May Copy Share Image
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition. — Brian May Copy Share Image
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast. — Brian May Copy Share Image
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. — Brian May Copy Share Image
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice. — Brian May Copy Share Image
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music. — Brian May Copy Share Image
I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me.… — Brian May Copy Share Image
It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions'… — Brian May Copy Share Image
The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love… — Brian May Copy Share Image
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 — Brian May Copy Share
Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has… — Brian May Copy Share
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do — Brian May Copy Share
There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in — Brian May Copy Share
I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it. — Brian May Copy Share
You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft. — Brian May Copy Share
To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had. — Brian May Copy Share
The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the… — Brian May Copy Share
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. — Brian May Copy Share
Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect. — Brian May Copy Share
When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way… — Brian May Copy Share
There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat. — Brian May Copy Share
We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch. — Brian May Copy Share
