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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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Brian May
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 19
Actor
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Hampton
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Brian Harold May
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When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.
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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 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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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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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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On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?
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I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
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The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.
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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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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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I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
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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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Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit
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I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.
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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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Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
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