Freddie Mercury Quotes - Page 2

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.

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. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.

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.

We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.

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.

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

Gay as a daffodil.

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

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.

I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

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

I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.

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

Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball

No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.

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.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... 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.

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

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

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 .

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

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.