Freddie Mercury Quotes:

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

Topics: Cycling, Want, Bicycle, Cycles, Riding A Bicycle

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

Topics: Dresses

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

Topics: Art, Understanding, Trying, Modern Art

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

Topics: Thinking, Melody

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

Topics: Redneck, Idols, Way, Pouting

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

Topics: Stars, War, Men

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

source: - "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Stars, Agreement, World

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

Topics: Needs, Excess, Disease, Dullness

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

Topics: Stars, Rocks, Legends, Singer-songwriters

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70...

Topics: Want, Rock N Roll, Gone

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

source: - Source: bleacherreport.com

Topics: Why Not, Littles, Little Bit

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Musical, Dear

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

source: - Source: aalbc.com

Topics: Musician, Substance, Want

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

Topics: Umpires, Giving, May

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.

Topics: Song, Fun, Razors

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

Topics: Splendid

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!

source: - "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Thinking, People, Interesting, Heaven Hell

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 .

Topics: Music, Rocks, Groups, Unheard

You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

source: - "Rock On Freddie". Interview, www.queenarchives.com. 1985.

Topics: Loneliness, Men, Pounds

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

Topics: Music, Successful, Reason, Charismatic

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

Topics: Crazy, Years, Twenties

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.

Topics: White, Black, Grew

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

Topics: Art, College, Illustration, Diploma, High School Diploma

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.

Topics: Beach, Zeppelins, Harmony

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Topics: Emotional, Thinking, Years

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

Topics: Events, Albums, Concerts, Fashion Show, Live Concerts

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

Topics: Real, People, Barriers, Real Me

What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.

Topics: Voice, Energy, Audience

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.

Topics: Stars, Queens, Believe

I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle; 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...; I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle...

Topics: Believe, Cycling, Want, Riding A Bicycle, Bicycle

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.

Topics: Strong, Queens, Gay, Regal

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

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

Topics: Queens, Albums, Gone

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

Topics: Beautiful, Shining, Feel Good, Beautiful Day

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

Topics: Devil, Social, Rejects

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.

source: - "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Interview with Scott Cohen, Circus Magazine, www.queenarchives.com. April 1975.

Topics: Stars, Rocks, Idols

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

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

Topics: Balls, Good Times

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

Topics: Stars, Dimes, Lasts, Glamorous Life

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

Topics: Queens, Years, Names

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

Topics: Rocks, Band, Zeppelins, Rockers, Vocalist

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

Topics: Noise, Bigs, Flashy

Following the enormous conjecture in the press, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct to keep this information private in order to protect the privacy of those around me. However, the time has now come for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth, and I hope everyone will join with me, my doctor and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease.

Topics: Fighting, Doctors, Order, Hiv Positive

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

Topics: Want, Clutter, Exquisite

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

Topics: Funny, Witty, Age

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

Topics: Hopeless

Who wants to live forever?

Topics: Forever, Want, Live Forever

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

Topics: Song, Queens, Thinking, Escapism, Queen Song

I want it all and I want it now.

Topics: Want, Dependable, Instant Gratification

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.

Topics: Night, Might, Roger

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

Topics: Nice, Singers, My Favorite, Favorite Singer

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.

Topics: Song, Writing, Hype, British Music

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. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.

Topics: Beautiful, Falling In Love, Hurt

I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.

Topics: Love You, Heart, Care

I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!

Topics: Gay, Daffodil, Dear

Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous.

Topics: Interviews, Ridiculous

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

Topics: Bills, Freak, Bones

The bigger the better; in everything.

Topics: Bigger

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends...

Topics: Butterfly, Wings, Yesterday

Get on your bikes and ride!

Topics: Bike

The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.

Topics: Inspirational, Long, Important, Fabulous Life

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

Topics: Queens

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

Topics: Too Much, Disaster

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.

Topics: Music, Housewife, Terrible

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

Topics: Care, Interviews

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

Topics: Careers, Hype, Soul

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... 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.

Topics: Song, Writing, Mean, British Music

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

Topics: Queens, Want, Majestic, Dandy, Regal

I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody?

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

Topics: Stars, Legends

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.

Topics: Song, Hate, Love You, Sad Song

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

Topics: Bottles, Way, Coke

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

Topics: Magic, Way

I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

Topics: Reading, Writing, Light, Creating Music, Manic

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?

Topics: Queens, Fans, Mercury

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.

Topics: Queens, Real, Fancy

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.

Topics: Zeppelins, Cases, Fingers

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.

Topics: Thinking, Who Cares, Care, Remember Me

If it's planned, it's boring

Topics: Planning, Boring

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.

Topics: Tomorrow

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.

Topics: Powerful, Men, Monsters

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

Topics: Russia, Youth

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it

Topics: Dream, Song, Writing, Flamboyant

Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!

Topics: Hair, Order, Teeth

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

Topics: Appeals, Convince

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

Topics: Who Cares, Care

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

Topics: Men, World, Feels

I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.

Topics: Perfect, Teeth, Done, Time Apart

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

Topics: Fashion, Fun, Clothes

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

Topics: Real, Emotional, Extremes, Emotional Person

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

Topics: Leader, Important, Persons, Important Person

I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

Topics: Winning, Thinking, Want, Being Natural

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

Topics: Guitar, Years, Three

One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

Topics: Love, Years, Lifetime, Years Of Love

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

Topics: Mean, Doe, Want

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

Topics: Thinking, Want, Turns

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.

Topics: People, Feel Good, Lucky

I'm possessed by love - but isn't everybody?

source: - "I am the Champion". Interview with Nick Farrari, The Sun, www.queenarchives.com. July 19, 1985.

Topics: Possessed

I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.

Topics: Growing, Boring, Aspiration

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

source: - "Rock On Freddie". Interview, www.queenarchives.com. 1985.

Topics: Lonely, Awful, Imagine

Gay as a daffodil.

source: - New Musical Express Magazine, March 12, 1974.

Topics: Gay, Daffodil, Dear

This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

Topics: Love, Baby, Night, All Night

I don't talk to everybody, so they don't really know the real me. I don't think anybody will.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Real Me

Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking Can't we give ourselves one more chance Why can't we give love that one more chance Why can't we give love Cause love's such an old fashioned word and love dares you to care for The people on the edge of the night And love dares you to change our way of Caring about ourselves This is our last dance This is our last dance This is ourselves Under pressure

source: - Song: Under Pressure

Topics: Song, Caring, Night, Last Dance, Love Dare

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

source: - Song: Bohemian Rhapsody

Topics: Song, Real, Eye, Landslides, Bohemian Rhapsody

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

source: - "The Man Who Would Be Queen". Melody Maker Interview, www.queenarchives.com. May 2,1981.

Topics: Queens, People, Feelings, Had A Good Time

I'm not into business at all.