Brian May Quotes - Page 2

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis

It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.

There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.