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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.

Brian May

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Brian May
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 19
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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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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 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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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 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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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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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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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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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
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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'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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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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