Brian May Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.”

“At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever.”

“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.”

“I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.”

“Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.”

“The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.”