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What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.
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.
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.
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
If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.
Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
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 have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.
I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.
I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.
In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.
Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
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 the band
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 the band.
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 recaptured.
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.
When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.
I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.
Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.
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 we treat our fellow creatures.
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. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.
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 this topic and nothing can be added here.
Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.
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 from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.
Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.
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, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
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, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.
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's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.
The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are.
...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!
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 innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.