Brian May Quotes
"I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good."
- Brian May
(Related: Thought, Pretty)
"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."
- Brian May
(Related: Life, Building, Now, Queen, Trying, Years)
"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
(Related: Money, Queen, Right)
"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
(Related: Guitar, Pretty, Sound)
"Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children."
- Brian May
(Related: Children, Hurt, Poor)
"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
(Related: First)
"The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else."
- Brian May
(Related: Excitement, Guitar, Nothing)
"The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it."
- Brian May
(Related: Death, Wedding, March)
"There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair."
- Brian May
(Related: Danger, Hair)
"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
(Related: Belief, Magic)
"There's nothing I'm embarrassed about."
- Brian May
(Related: Nothing)
"We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum."
- Brian May
(Related: Music, Play)
"I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition."
- Brian May
(Related: Music, People, Intuition, Listening)
"Mantovani was a great influence on me."
- Brian May
(Related: Influence)
"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind."
- Brian May
(Related: Guitar)
"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
(Related: People, Giving, Want)
"The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism."
- Brian May
(Related: Optimism, Creation, Emotion)
"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."
- Brian May
(Related: Life, Garden)
"At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever."
- Brian May
(Related: Queen)
"Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit."
- Brian May
(Related: Right)
"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
(Related: Time, Guitar)
"Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do."
- Brian May
(Related: Thought, Stars)
"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
(Related: Time, Queen, Questions, Want)
"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
(Related: Time, Beginning, Energy, Queen)
"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."
- Brian May
(Related: Play, Want)
"I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish."
- Brian May
"A good video can make all the difference."
- Brian May
(Related: Difference)
"I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis."
- Brian May
"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
(Related: Achievement, First, Guitar)
"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
(Related: Belief, Creativity, Months)
"Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer."
- Brian May
(Related: Astronomy, Fun)
"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
(Related: Chance)