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Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.
I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.
You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time
The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy.
By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.
You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.
About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.
It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.
If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.
I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .
I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.
What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.
Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.
When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.
I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.
In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.
Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.
My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.
We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.
It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow.
You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.
This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.
I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.
Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.
Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!
Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.
A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.
I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?
A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it
Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!
In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.
I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.
Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!
I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.
I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride it where I like...; I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle...
You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.
Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.