Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Freddie Mercury

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.

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.

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

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

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

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

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

I'm not into business at all.

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.

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.

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

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

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

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.

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

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.

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.

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

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.

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 .

If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.

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

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

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

Who wants to live forever?

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Gay as a daffodil.

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

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.

One year of love is better than a lifetime alone.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

If it's planned, it's boring

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!

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

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.

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.

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