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Amazing uke playing to be relished.
There's nothing I'm embarrassed about
There's nothing I'm embarrassed about.
Mantovani was a great influence on me.
A good video can make all the difference
The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.
The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer
Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.
I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis
I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.
Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.
I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.
What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit
Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody
There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in
There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in.
I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.
I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever
At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.
There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.
We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.
To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.
You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.
I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.