Queen Freddie Mercury Quotes

#1. I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

Gary Cherone

#2. Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.

James Buchan

#3. I have an understanding of Queen and the way Freddie Mercury did his harmonies. I know what tablas sound like, because my father played a lot of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

Lupe Fiasco

#4. I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

Freddie Mercury

#5. My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.

Psy

#6. What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

Freddie Mercury

#7. Born to be kings, we're the princes of the Universe!

Freddie Mercury

#8. You don't grow old. You get old by not growing.

E. Stanley Jones

#9. I've studied several guitar players and songwriters, mostly from Al di Meola to Dimebag Darrell, from Freddie Mercury of Queen to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana and Bradley Nowell of Sublime.

Mark Salling

#10. Inside my heart is breaking,
My make-up may be flaking,
But my smile, still, stays on!

Freddie Mercury

#11. The Hoff has taken over David Hasselhoff. David Hasselhoff really doesn't know who he is anymore. Everywhere I go, it's The Hoff.

David Hasselhoff

#12. The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable ... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

Bernadine Dohrn

#13. When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

Freddie Mercury

#14. Master your mind and you'll master the world around you.

Stephan Labossiere

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?

Freddie Mercury

#19. The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us, and we want to be dandy.

Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

#21. Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

Freddie Mercury

#22. How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

Mark Twain

#23. He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.

Alice Hoffman

#24. I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.

Freddie Mercury

#25. Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!

Freddie Mercury