Brian May Quotes

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• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an…
• I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is,…
• The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
• I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
• There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be…
• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the…
• This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on…
• The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else
• There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in
• Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer
• 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
• I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis
• Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
• From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on…
• At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever
• There's nothing I'm embarrassed about
• Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do
• The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
• To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.
• A good video can make all the difference

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