Music Quotes

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.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, no one is going to stop me now.

If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

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.

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

There's one thing we're all waiting for, it's peace on earth and end to war, it's the miracle we need ... The Miracle!

You can do whatever you like with my image, my music, remix it, re-release it, whatever... just never make me boring.

Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and he's said nice things about me, you know.

I don't want to keep playing the same formula over and over again, otherwise you just go insane. I don't want to become stale. I want to be creative.

You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs. Too much love will kill you every time.

We tend to work well under pressure. But do we row? Oh my dear, we're the bitchiest band on earth. You'll have to spend a couple of days with us. We're at each other's THROATS. But if we didn't disagree, we'd just be yes-men, and we do get the cream in the end.

The whole band is very particular. We don't go in for half measures and I'm very hard with myself. There're no compromises. If I thought a song wasn't quite right, I'd discard it. I'm very intricate and delicate.

We're fussy and finicky and have very high standards. If a song can't be done properly, we'd rather it isn't done at all.

People are used to hard rock, energy music from Queen, yet with ['Killer Queen'] you almost expect Noel Coward to sing it. It's one of those bowler hat, black suspender belt numbers -- not that Coward would wear that.

He really had everything a rock & roll star should have - style, presence; he didn't have to force anything. He'd just make an entrance and the whole place would be on fire. He was living out everything I wanted to be.

We came to South America originally because we were invited down. They wanted four wholesome lads to play some nice music. Now I'd like to buy up the entire continent and install myself as President.

To start off with, that song was written by John Deacon and he's a very happily married man with about four children. I don't know where you've got that message from, it's got nothing to do with gay people at all. It's basically about everybody, it's just somebody who has a very tough life and he just wants to break free from whatever problems he's got. It's got nothing to do with the gay thing.