Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Brian May - Page 2

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.

I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.

People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.

The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.

I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.

I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.

We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.

At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

If I go to places where other people are playing, I often get up and play myself. I just enjoy the sound and feel of playing.

I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band

A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

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.

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.

A good video can make all the difference

Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.

Amazing uke playing to be relished.

I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.