All Brian May Quotes
- 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… All
- 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,… Astronomy
- The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind. 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. Building
- 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… Belief
- 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… Arm
- 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… Added
- The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else Excitement
- There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in Albums
- Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer 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 Animal
- I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis Anybody
- Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear Always Treading
- 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… Any
- At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever Doe
- There's nothing I'm embarrassed about Embarrassed
- Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do Bit
- The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism. Biggest
- To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had. Alive
- A good video can make all the difference All
- We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. Audience
- I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate.… Articulate
- People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home… Been
- On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes. Albums
- 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. Album