Freddie Mercury Quotes

I love the fact that I can make people happy, in any form. Even if it’s just an hour of their lives, if I can make them feel lucky or make them feel good, or bring a smile to a sour face, that to me is worthwhile.

I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like

You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all the interesting people you're going to meet down there!

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they're getting.

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be.

This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

I'm a very emotional person, a person of real extremes, and that's often destructive both to myself and others.

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

The most important thing is to live a fabulous life. As long as it's fabulous I don't care how long it is.

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen...It's just a name, but it's very regal obviously, and it sounds splendid...It's a strong name, very universal and immediate. It had a lot of visual potential and was open to all sorts of interpretations. I was certainly aware of the gay connotations, but that was just one facet of it.

I'm not afraid to speak out, and say things that I want to do, or do the things that I want to do, so um, I think in the end, being natural, and being, being actually genuine is what wins.

It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me. I fall in love much too quickly and that results in me getting badly hurt. The problem with love is that you lose control and that is a very vulnerable state to be in. I would love to really have a beautiful relationship with somebody, but it never seems to work out. What I would like most of all is to be in a state of blissful love.

Gay as a daffodil.

We don't do it for the money... we do it for the music.

One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

If it's planned, it's boring

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.

I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... 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.

By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

When I'm dead are they going to remember me ? I don't really think about it, it's up to them. When I'm dead, who cares ? I don't.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy.

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 .

What you must understand is that my voice comes from the energy of the audience. The better they are, the better I get.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it

I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every single day of my life.

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.

I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct to keep this information private to date to protect the privacy of those around me. However, the time has come now for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth and I hope that everyone will join with my doctor and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease.

About ten years ago, I knew three chords on the guitar. Now, in 1982, I know three chords on the guitar.

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event.