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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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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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My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.
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I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.
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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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In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
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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.
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What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
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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.
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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.
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I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
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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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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.
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You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.
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On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
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I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
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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
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I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
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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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Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
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