"There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat."
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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."
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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!"
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"I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?"
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"You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place."
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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."
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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."
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"Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do"
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"I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time."
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"There's nothing I'm embarrassed about"
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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."
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"I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me."
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"The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it."
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"Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children."
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"On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes."
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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."
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"A good video can make all the difference"
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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."
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"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."
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"I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it."
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