Music Quotes

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Yes, I am a pirate two hundred years too late.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

I sell escapism.

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.

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and sounds splendid.

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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