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Quotes
"Freddie
was a friend of Tim Staffell's and came along to a lot of our gigs, and offered
suggestions in a way that couldn't be refused! At that time, he hadn't really
done any singing, and we didn't know he could-we thought he was he was just a
theatrical rock musician"- Brian
"I
was possibly the one person in the group who could look at it from the outside,
because l came in as the fourth person in the band. I knew there was
something there but l wasn't convinced of it....until possibly the Sheer Heart
Attack album" -John
"For
the first two years nothing really happened. We were all studying, but
progress in the band was nill. We had great ideas, though, and somehow l
think we all thought we would get through"-Roger
"We
said okay, we're going to take the plunge into rock and we're really going to
do a job at it, no half measures. We all had potentially good careers and
we weren't prepared to settle for second best if we were going to abandon all
the qualifications we had got in other fields"-Freddie
"We
don't especially go out and play heavy music or light music-it's just our kind
of music"-Brian
"I'm
just a musical prostitute my dear"-Freddie
"We're
pretty proud of what we've done as a whole. We still enjoy the buzz of
playing live and the fact that we have hit singles. Some bands in our
position might take it all in their stride but, but we're still like kids, we
get very excited"-Roger
"It
was the one day (Live -Aid) l was proud to be in the music business. A
lot of days you certainly don't feel that!"-John
"They
wouldn't let us into
"We
don't do enough shows these days, and i'd like to do more. I'll remember
Live-Aid till the day l die"-Brian
“Boy could
that one sing!” Roger on Freddie 1995
“I remember
speaking to you three or four year ago.
So you’re still working for the NME? Don’t they have such a thing as
promotion? Life is not treating you very well is it? I would have thought that
since the last time I met you, if you had any go, by now you should have
become…aha…editor of The Times” Freddie to Tony Stewart. NME, June 1977
“Brian can be
really hard to budge at times. But we
usually gang up on him and stick it out to the bitter end. Then we all go home”- Roger
“Up until now
we’ve been trying to prove ourselves and having to put up with the
critics. It can be very upsetting. We make music for ourselves and naturally
hope others will listen and enjoy it, but all the same its never good to read
other peoples sneering remarks”-John
“A band Is
like a marriage. There are wonderful
moments, great communication and energy.
But at the same time there are points
when you want to destroy each other”-Brian
“Roger and I
decided to go to a club in Spain and he managed to persuade me to get up on the
dance floor. My idea of dancing is to do
the sort of act I usually do on stage, so I started zooming about all over the
dance floor, treading on peoples feet and generally causing a lot of confusion. I don’t give those exhibitions very often, it
can be very embarrassing”- Freddie
“I remember
when Freddie used to sleep on my floor.
He didn’t have a bean but he’d always produce from no-where these
immaculately pressed trousers. He
wouldn’t dream of wearing anything slightly scruffy”-Roger
“I suppose I’m
the quietest member of the band. I’m the
most conservative anyway. I suppose my
sense of humour is a bit strange. I
laugh at things that others don’t find at all funny. I love practical jokes and catching people
unawares with a camera”-John
"Well, I
don't want to sleep with any of them."-Brian
“I still laugh
when I think of the time we went through customs and the official opened my bag
to search it and turned quiet scarlet when he saw it was full of nail polish,
mascara, stage jewellery and satin
underwear”-Freddie
“I was really
screaming at everyone especially Brian, I hated some of the things he’d chosen
to play. The atmosphere was so highly
charged anything could have happened. Then we found Freddie in his dressing
room still sitting in his underpants and vest eating a bowl of cornflakes. We all just collapsed in hysterics. That’s
Freddie’s secret, he will always do the most unexpected and bring us back
together”-Roger
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