Quotes by Brian May - Page 2

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
Brian May / Musician
Dream
Men
Stones
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We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
Brian May / Musician
Done
Four
Thinking
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My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.
Brian May / Musician
Children
Father
Stars
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I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
Brian May / Musician
Albums
Fart
Groups
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I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
Brian May / Musician
Intuition
Listening To Others
People
Music Myself Better
Seriously
Sheet
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I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
Brian May / Musician
Concerned
Gadgets
Guitar
Sound
Technique
Anyway
Basic
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I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.
Brian May / Musician
Queens
Band
Thinking
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I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal
Brian May / Musician
Animal
Creativity
Months
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If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.
Brian May / Musician
People
Play
Sound
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Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
Brian May / Musician
Guitar
Never Expect
Views
Way
Whole
Beck
Every Time
Expect
Jeff
Jeff Beck
Radically
View
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I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.
Brian May / Musician
Animal
Belief
Months
Weird
Crises
Few
Major
Peaks
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I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.
Brian May / Musician
Belief
Boat
Sea
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I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.
Brian May / Musician
Guitar
Hendrix
Thinking
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The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
Brian May / Musician
Albums
Nine
Orchestra
Player
Except
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For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.
Brian May / Musician
Queens
Alive
Answers
Relevant
Want
Questions
Fossil
Queen
Viewed
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I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.
Brian May / Musician
Firsts
Study
Trying
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In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
Brian May / Musician
Mistake
People
Print
Waiting
Apart
In Print
Picked
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I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
Brian May / Musician
America
Play
Thinking
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The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.
Brian May / Musician
Band
Kind
Size
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Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
Brian May / Musician
Giving
People
Unique
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I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
Brian May / Musician
Funny
Chance
Money
Asteroids
Becoming
Despise
Lottery
Millionaire
Passing
Asteroid
Hit
Less
Head
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From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band
Brian May / Musician
Queens
Band
Energy
Momentum
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Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear.
Brian May / Musician
Treading
Unique
Yourself People Always
Gig
Hear
Line
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From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band.
Brian May / Musician
Band
Energy
Focused
Momentum
Anything Else
Beginning
Queen
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There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.
Brian May / Musician
Belief
Magic
Way
Moment
Repeat
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I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
Brian May / Musician
Achievement
Guitar
Three
Wanted
Be The First
Big Thing
First
Harmonies
Record
Put
Onto
Proper
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My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.
Brian May / Musician
Guitar
Player
Thinking
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When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.
Brian May / Musician
America
Couple
Years
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I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.
Brian May / Musician
Queens
Killers
No Money
Hit
Queen
Lasted
Perfectly
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Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.
Brian May / Musician
Approval
Heaven
Jigsaw Puzzles
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When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.
Brian May / Musician
Queens
Doubt
People
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I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.
Brian May / Musician
Dad
Guitar
Ideas
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This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.
Brian May / Musician
Men
Rocks
Voice
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Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.
Brian May / Musician
Queens
Lucky
Normal
Rock Star
Song
Stars
Thinking
Star
Connect
Generation
Queen
Rock
Normal People
Seemingly
Tend
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People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.
Brian May / Musician
Queens
Home
Cutting
Eight
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Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.
Brian May / Musician
Kings
Boys
Mean
Reality
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I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
Brian May / Musician
Opposites
People
Thinking
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I think music is about our internal life. It's part of the way people touch each other. That's very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
Brian May / Musician
Astronomy
Life Music Me
Opposite
Touch
Beyond
Grasp
Instead
Internal
Precious
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It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.
Brian May / Musician
Appreciated
Champion
Framework
Normal
Public Life
Rocks
Wonderful
Life Music Me
Life Music Done
Champions
Public
Listened
Rock
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I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.
Brian May / Musician
Interesting
Knitting Needles
Spring
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The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are.
Brian May / Musician
Busy
Creating
Disaster
Felt
Good Person
Stimulation
Love Good Music
Incredibly
Suppose
Problems
Solving
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...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!
Brian May / Musician
Men
Thinking
Views
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George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.
Brian May / Musician
Simple
Spiritual
Stars
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