Freddie Mercury Quotes
"Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?"
- Freddie Mercury
"It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Talent, Soul, Career)
"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."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Astrology, Queen)
"Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!"
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Money, Happiness, May)
"Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Thought, Name, Queen, Years)
"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."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Night)
"Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Devil)
"The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others."
- Freddie Mercury
"The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Care)
"Who wants to live forever?"
- Freddie Mercury
"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
(Related: Press)
"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 ."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Opera, Rules)
"We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Queen)
"What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?"
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Time, Will, Years)
"When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Want, Worth)
"When the whole point of Queen was to be original."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Queen)
"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."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Variety)
"I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Will)
"The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Successful, Charisma, Reason)
"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."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Beach, Harmony, Old)
"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear."
- Freddie Mercury
"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."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Money, Manager)
"If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes."
- Freddie Mercury
"But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Act, Years)
"I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Now, Rest, World)
"I dress to kill, but tastefully."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Dress)
"I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Art, College)
"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."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Life, Nothing)
"I like to be surrounded by splendid things."
- Freddie Mercury
"I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics."
- Freddie Mercury
"I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Life, Want)
"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."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Music, Press, Songs)
"I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Money)
"I'm not into business at all."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Business)
"I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Time, May, Years)
"I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show."
- Freddie Mercury
(Related: Clothes, Fashion, Fun)
"A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event."
- Freddie Mercury