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Brian May
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 19
Actor
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Brian Harold May
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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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The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
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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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Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
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I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
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Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit
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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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There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
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Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
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My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
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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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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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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
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The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.
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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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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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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'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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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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Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear
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