Music Quotes

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.

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

I think all my songs are under the label emotion​. The more I open up, the more I get hurt, so basically what happens is I'm just riddled with scars.

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.

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.

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

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

I feel that the name Queen actually fitted that time. It lent itself to a lot of things, like the theatre, and it was grand. It was very pompous, with all kinds of connotations. It meant so much. It wasn't just one precise label. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.

That single sold over a million and a quarter copies in Britain alone, which is outrageous. Imagine all those grandmothers grooving to it!

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.

I thought up the name Queen early on. It couldn't have been King; it doesn't have the same ring or aura as Queen.