Freddie Mercury Quotes
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Freddie Mercury Quotes & Sayings
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We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
— Freddie Mercury
The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course
— Freddie Mercury
I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me
— Freddie Mercury
I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.
— Freddie Mercury
Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
— Freddie Mercury
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
— Freddie Mercury
I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.
— Freddie Mercury
I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.
— Taylor Hawkins
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.
— Freddie Mercury
Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball
— Freddie Mercury
I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will ...
— Freddie Mercury
I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
If you loved music, you loved Freddie Mercury.
— Neil Sedaka
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
— Freddie Mercury
Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.
— Freddie Mercury
If you see it there, darling, then it's there. -Freddie Mercury, when asked the meaning of his lyrics.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
— Freddie Mercury
I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.
— Freddie Mercury
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
— Freddie Mercury
It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.
— Freddie Mercury
When I'm dead who cares? I don't ...
— Freddie Mercury
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
— Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.
— Roy Thomas Baker
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.
— Freddie Mercury
But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.
— Freddie Mercury
Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.
— Freddie Mercury
I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.
— Freddie Mercury
I like to be surrounded by splendid things.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
— Freddie Mercury
One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.
— Freddie Mercury
If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.
— Freddie Mercury
When the whole point of Queen was to be original.
— Freddie Mercury
You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.
— Freddie Mercury
By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.
— Freddie Mercury
Born to be kings, we're the princes of the Universe!
— Freddie Mercury
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
— Gary Cherone
You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time
— Freddie Mercury
Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars
— Freddie Mercury
Inside my heart is breaking,My make-up may be flaking,
But my smile, still, stays on! — Freddie Mercury
Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
— Freddie Mercury
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 ...
— Freddie Mercury
I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.
— Freddie Mercury
I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody?
— Freddie Mercury
They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.
— Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury inspired me when I was young.
— Brittany Howard
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.
— Freddie Mercury
Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
— Kate Beckinsale
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.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.
— Freddie Mercury
Get on your bikes and ride!
— Freddie Mercury
What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
— Freddie Mercury
We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.
— Mindy Kaling
It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
— Freddie Mercury
I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
— Freddie Mercury
It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.
— Freddie Mercury
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
— Freddie Mercury
We don't do it for the money ... we do it for the music.
— Freddie Mercury
A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.
— Freddie Mercury
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
— Adam Lambert
The bigger the better; in everything.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
— Freddie Mercury
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies,Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die,
I can fly, my friends ... — Freddie Mercury
The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us, and we want to be dandy.
— Freddie Mercury
I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!
— Freddie Mercury
Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
I dress to kill, but tastefully.
— Freddie Mercury
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 .
— Freddie Mercury
I'm not into business at all.
— Freddie Mercury
Who wants to live forever?
— Freddie Mercury
No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.
— Freddie Mercury
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.
— Freddie Mercury
