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.

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.

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.

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

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

Seek and fulfil your divine purpose.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

There's something to me with categorization - it stops you from thinking about the thing that is actually happening.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.

Words of love you whisper soft and true Darling I love you

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

The NAACP should have riot rehearsals.