Best friend Quote by Roger Meddows Taylor

It took about five years until we were properly over Freddie's passing. You learn to live with it.

— Roger Taylor

We became closer and closer at the end of Freddie's life, and I think we were co-dependent in many ways. We stuck together for…

— Roger Taylor

Freddie obviously knew he was ill long before we did. We knew there was something wrong, but we didn't know what it was. He…

— Roger Taylor

If people are so obsessed with Freddie that they can't bear to see Queen without him, they should stay home and listen to the…

— Roger Taylor

No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

— Roger Meddows Taylor

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

— Ozzy Osbourne

Freddie was the glue that kept us together. He was a very complex man: very shy but also with a forceful side to him.

— Roger Taylor

I watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the way that…

— Dave Mustaine

I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they were taken so soon. I loved…

— George Jones

My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a…

— Gregg Allman

I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took.…

— Harry Connick, Jr

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

— Barbara Mikulski