Top 100 Quotes About Freddie Mercury
#1. 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
#2. 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.
#3. I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone
#4. 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
#5. Freddie Mercury taught me 3 thingsdon't take anything too seriously, have fun and always fly first class.
Roy Thomas Baker
#6. True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.
Mindy Kaling
#8. Freddie Mercury and Elton John are, like, two of the biggest Influences in my whole life. And probably always will be.
Axl Rose
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. If you loved music, you loved Freddie Mercury.
Neil Sedaka
#15. 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.
#16. 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
#17. You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.
Kacey Musgraves
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. If you see it there, darling, then it's there. -Freddie Mercury, when asked the meaning of his lyrics.
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#23. 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
#24. I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.
John Deacon
#25. Freddie Mercury, to me, was probably the most important frontman to me growing up.
Gerard Way
#26. A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
Adam Lambert
#27. My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen.
Psy
#28. 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
#29. Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.
Pete Townshend
#30. I watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the way that he just truly went with his voice.
Dave Mustaine
#31. There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.
Fergie
#32. The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course
Freddie Mercury
#33. By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.
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#35. What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.
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#36. 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!
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#37. It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.
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#38. 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.
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#39. We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
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#40. I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.
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#42. I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps.
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#43. 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.
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#44. I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.
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#45. 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.
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#46. Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.
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#48. Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.
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#50. 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
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#52. Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
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#53. I always knew I was a star, and now the rest of the world seems to agree with me.
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#54. I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.
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#55. 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.
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#56. We don't do it for the money ... we do it for the music.
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#57. No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married.
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#58. We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
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#59. You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time
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#60. Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?
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#61. 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 .
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#62. I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.
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#63. The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us, and we want to be dandy.
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#64. It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.
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#65. 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.
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#66. You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.
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#67. A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.
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#68. 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.
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#69. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.
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#72. 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.
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#73. If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.
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#74. My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies,
Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die,
I can fly, my friends ...
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#75. The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
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#76. 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.
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#77. I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.
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#78. Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball
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#79. 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.
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#80. About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.
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#82. 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.
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#84. If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.
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#85. Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.
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#86. They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something.
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#87. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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.
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#92. 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
#93. 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
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#94. When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
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#96. Inside my heart is breaking,
My make-up may be flaking,
But my smile, still, stays on!
Freddie Mercury
#97. I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
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#98. Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars
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#99. It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.
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