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The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

Brian May

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Brian May
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 19
Actor
Astrophysicist
Composer
Guitarist
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Physicist
Pianist
Record Producer
Research Fellow
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Hampton
Middlesex
Brian Harold May
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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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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 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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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 had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.
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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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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 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 think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.
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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 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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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.
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I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?
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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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There's nothing I'm embarrassed about
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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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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
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Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
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