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Freddie Mercury Quotes

Total quotes: 24
“May you all have champagne for breakfast.”
— Freddie Mercury, Freddie Mercury: Is This Man a Prat?
Tagged: champagne, breakfast
“I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got. I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star.”
— Freddie Mercury, Part 2: The Queen Tapes
Tagged: Glamour, Rock Star, Money, spendthrift
“We've always put our neck on the line. We're fussy and finicky and have very high standards. If a song can't be done properly, we'd rather it isn't done at all. We're the fussiest band in the world, and we put so much loving into every album.”
— Freddie Mercury, Part 2: The Queen Tapes
Tagged: fussy, finicky, High Standards
“It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.”
— Freddie Mercury, Part 2: The Queen Tapes
Tagged: Soul, Hype, Talent, Career, contrived
“I think I'm totally original. I'm sure there are many people who see themselves in me, but that's to them. I'm me, basically, and that's how I like to be.”
— Freddie Mercury, Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London
Tagged: original, Self-Confidence
“The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is a part of us and we want to be dandy. We want to shock and be outrageously instantly.”
— Freddie Mercury, Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London
Tagged: regal, majestic, Glamour, Shock
“We tend to work well under pressure. But do we row? Oh my dear, we're the bitchiest band on earth. You'll have to spend a couple of days with us. We're at each other's THROATS. But if we didn't disagree, we'd just be yes-men, and we do get the cream in the end.”
— Freddie Mercury, Queen: A Seventies Bombshell
Tagged: pressure, yes-men, bitchiest
“People think I'm an ogre at times. Some girls hissed at me in the street...'You devil.' They think we're really nasty. But that's only on stage. Off stage, well I'm certainly not an ogre.”
— Freddie Mercury, Queen: A Seventies Bombshell
Tagged: ogre, Nasty, hiss
“I hate pockets in trousers. By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.”
— Freddie Mercury
Tagged: pockets, trousers, stuffing your pants, Bulge
“You've got to know where to draw the line. But the public always come first—it's a corny thing to say but I mean it. Lately I've been throwing things around which is very unlike me. I threw a glass at someone the other day. I think I'm going to go mad in a few years time; I'm going to be one of those insane musicians.”
— Freddie Mercury
Tagged: draw the line, corny, insane musicians
“I'm very emotional. Whereas before, I was given time to make my decisions, now nearly all of us are so highly strung we just snap. We always argue but I think it's a healthy sign because we get to the root of the matter and squeeze the best out. But lately so much is happening, it's escalating so fast that everybody wants to know almost instantly, and I certainly get very temperamental.”
— Freddie Mercury
Tagged: Emotional, high strung, Temperamental
“You've got to make sure that you don't ever admit to yourself that this is your peak. If you admit to yourself that this is your peak, then you're on the way down.”
— Freddie Mercury, 'I can dream up all kinds of things' – a classic Freddie Mercury interview from the vaults
Tagged: Peak, excellence, decline
“Putting people in different categories is unfair. You have to judge people on what they are.”
— Freddie Mercury, 'I can dream up all kinds of things' – a classic Freddie Mercury interview from the vaults
Tagged: Stereotyping, Prejudice
“The whole band is very particular. We don't go in for half measures and I'm very hard with myself. There're no compromises. If I thought a song wasn't quite right, I'd discard it. I'm very intricate and delicate.”
— Freddie Mercury, 'I can dream up all kinds of things' – a classic Freddie Mercury interview from the vaults
Tagged: Obsessiveness, Particular, Compromise, intricate, Delicate
“A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in.”
— Freddie Mercury, 'I can dream up all kinds of things' – a classic Freddie Mercury interview from the vaults
Tagged: Fantasy, Dreams, Songwriting
“Quite often I have quite vicious nightmares—like the other night just before the Rainbow concert. We were sleeping in the Holiday Inn and I dreamed I went out on to the hotel balcony and the whole thing fell and I was a heap on the pavement. Really I was petrified when I woke up in the morning.”
— Freddie Mercury, 'I can dream up all kinds of things' – a classic Freddie Mercury interview from the vaults
Tagged: nightmares, Holiday Inn
“I was a precocious child. My parents thought boarding school would do me good so they sent me to one when I was seven, dear. I look back on it and I think it was marvellous. You learn to look after yourself and it taught me to have responsibility.”
— Freddie Mercury, 'I can dream up all kinds of things' – a classic Freddie Mercury interview from the vaults
Tagged: precocious, Boarding School
“You have to have confidence in this business. It's USELESS saying you don't need it. If you start saying to yourself, 'Maybe I'm not good enough, maybe I'd better settle for second place,' it's no good. If you like the icing on the top, you've got to have confidence.”
— Freddie Mercury, 'I can dream up all kinds of things' – a classic Freddie Mercury interview from the vaults
Tagged: Confidence, Music Industry
“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.”
— Freddie Mercury, Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London
Tagged: Jimi Hendrix, Rock Star, Idol, Magic
“We’re confident people will take to us, because although the camp image has already been established by people like Bowie and Bolan we are taking it to another level. The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy. We want to shock and be outrageous instantly.”
— Freddie Mercury
Tagged: Confidence, marc bolan, David Bowie, camp, regal, majestic
“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.”
— Freddie Mercury, Freddie Mercury a Life, in His Own Words
Tagged: Life Quotes
“The more you open up, the more you get hurt. So basically, I’m just riddled with scars and I just don’t want any more.”
— Freddie Mercury, A Quote by Freddie Mercury
Tagged: Openness, Opening Up, sharing secrets, Trust
“I play on the bisexual thing because it's something else, it's fun. But I don't put on the show because I feel I have to and the last thing I want to do is give people an idea of exactly who I am. I want people to work out their own interpretation of me and my image. I don't want to build a frame around myself and say, 'This is what I am' or 'This is all I am.'”
— Freddie Mercury, 'I can dream up all kinds of things' – a classic Freddie Mercury interview from the vaults
Tagged: Queen, Homosexuality
“To be honest. I'd like people to think there is no falsity in me because what I do is really my character. But I think mystique, not knowing the truth about someone, is very appealing. I'd be doing myself an injustice if I didn't wear makeup because some people think it's wrong. Even to talk about being gay used to be obnoxious and unheard of. But gone are those days. There's a lot of freedom today and you can put yourself across anyway you want to. But I haven't CHOSEN this image. I'm myself and in fact half the time I let the wind take me.”
— Freddie Mercury, 'I can dream up all kinds of things' – a classic Freddie Mercury interview from the vaults
Tagged: Queen, Homosexuality
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