Music Quotes

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

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.

One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

I had a lot of ideas bursting to get out and there were a lot of musical territories I wanted to explore which I really couldn't do within Queen.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

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 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.

I just like having fun. It's a very good release, rock music, but you know you say that I am a different person on stage and that same thing could be said of anyone going out to do his job. It's my work, and I'm very serious about it, getting it right - when we began, we approached it the way we did because we were not prepared to be out-of-work musicians, ever. We said either take it on as a serious commodity or don't do it at all.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film - after that, they can go away and say that was great, and go back to their problems. I don't want to change the world with our music. There are no hidden messages in our songs, except for some of Brian's.

Most of my songs are love ballads and things to do with sadness and torture and pain.

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.

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jellyfish. I kinda like it.

I wanted a participation song, something the fans could latch on to. It was aimed at the masses. I wanted to write something that everyone could sing along to, like a football chant. And at the same time, I thought it would be nice to have a winning song that's meant for everybody. It worked a treat.

That was really when the Queen volcano erupted, when it suddenly just went bang!

We Are The Champions' is the most egotistical and arrogant song I've ever written. I was thinking about football when I wrote it.

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

I was always keen to do a solo album. I just wanted it to be the right time and the right place so that I could actually work properly on the songs that I wanted to do before I got too old.