The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

Life is so fleeting. I am so busy enjoying it that I have no time to get angry.

To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain.

The Jews don't beleive in Jesus! Why should I?! WHOOOEEEE!!

To love is to burn, to be on fire.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general "nice to have" market.

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.