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The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

Brian May

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Brian May
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 19
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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.
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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.
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Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
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Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.
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There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect that's why we threw them in
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The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
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I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.
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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.
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I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
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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.
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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.
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It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.
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Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer
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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.
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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.
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Amazing uke playing to be relished.
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