"The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others."
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"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."
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"I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend."
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"Interview? Oh don't be ridiculous."
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"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."
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"I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time."
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"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."
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"Get on your bikes and ride!"
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"They wouldn't let us into Russia. They thought we'd corrupt the youth or something."
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"Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball"
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"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."
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"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."
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"A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show."
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"No age is good to get married at. You got to be a fool to get married."
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"The bigger the better; in everything."
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"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."
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"I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got."
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"I'm not into business at all."
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"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."
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"When the whole point of Queen was to be original."
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