Top 100 Quotes About Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

#2. By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.

Freddie Mercury

#3. I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

Kate Beckinsale

#4. Who wants to live forever?

Freddie Mercury

#5. I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.

Mika.

#6. 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

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

Gary Cherone

#8. 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

#9. I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards, the John Paul Jones of my generation.

Steven Adler

#10. 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

#11. Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

Freddie Mercury

#12. We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

#14. I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

#16. 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

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

Freddie Mercury

#18. I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it's just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.

Freddie Mercury

#19. Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.

Roy Thomas Baker

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

Freddie Mercury

#21. I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

Freddie Mercury

#22. Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Freddie Mercury

#23. The bigger the better; in everything.

Freddie Mercury

#24. True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

Mindy Kaling

#25. Freddie Mercury inspired me when I was young.

Brittany Howard

#26. 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

#27. One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

Freddie Mercury

#28. Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

Freddie Mercury

#29. I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

#31. 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

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

Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

#35. Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.

Axl Rose

#36. You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time

Freddie Mercury

#37. Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

Freddie Mercury

#38. 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

#39. I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

#41. Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

Karen O

#42. It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.

Freddie Mercury

#43. 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

#44. You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.

Freddie Mercury

#45. A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

Freddie Mercury

#46. 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

#47. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Freddie Mercury

#48. I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

Freddie Mercury

#49. Get on your bikes and ride!

Freddie Mercury

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Freddie Mercury

#53. If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music ... it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life.

Axl Rose

#54. 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

#55. The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.

Freddie Mercury

#56. In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. 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.

Freddie Mercury

#57. I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

#59. There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their voice. Some have both, like Freddie Mercury, but to me, I prefer style over technique.

Ozzy Osbourne

#60. 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

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

Freddie Mercury

#62. My style has been nurtured over time. It's more about knowing what doesn't suit you. I love suits and anything sharp, and I know that shape suits me. I don't feel feminine in floaty dresses with spaghetti straps - I feel more like Freddie Mercury in drag.

Erin O'Connor

#63. I dress to kill, but tastefully.

Freddie Mercury

#64. 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

#65. When I'm dead who cares? I don't ...

Freddie Mercury

#66. If you loved music, you loved Freddie Mercury.

Neil Sedaka

#67. If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

Freddie Mercury

#68. Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.

Freddie Mercury

#69. I'm a huge Freddie Mercury fan. I think he was the end-all. I love his lack of inhibition, his talent, the chances he took. He made mistakes on his records, and he didn't care.

Harry Connick Jr.

#70. They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.

Freddie Mercury

#71. 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

#72. Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place.

Freddie Mercury

#73. I'm not into business at all.

Freddie Mercury

#74. You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.

Kacey Musgraves

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

Brandi Carlile

#80. 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

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

Freddie Mercury

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

Freddie Mercury

#83. 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

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

Freddie Mercury

#85. I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

Freddie Mercury

#86. Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars

Freddie Mercury

#87. The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles.

Jack Antonoff

#88. It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

Freddie Mercury

#89. 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

#90. I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!

Freddie Mercury

#91. I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

Freddie Mercury

#92. If you see it there, darling, then it's there. -Freddie Mercury, when asked the meaning of his lyrics.

Freddie Mercury

#93. But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.

Freddie Mercury

#94. I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

Freddie Mercury

#95. Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Freddie Mercury

#96. I feel clobbered by the impossibility of translating into words as much of this enormous world we live in with its subtly complex and sprawling Periodic Table of emotions. To quote Freddie Mercury, I want it all.

David Mitchell

#97. I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Freddie Mercury

#98. I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

John Deacon

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

Freddie Mercury

#100. Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.

Gerard Way

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