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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.

- Brian May

Always, Line, Keeping, Gig

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.

- Brian May

Love, Waiting, Mistake, Picked

It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.

- Brian May

Feel, Part, About, Public Life

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

- Brian May

Optimism, Emotion, Biggest, Creation

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit.

- Brian May

Black, Expert, About, Holes

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.

- Brian May

Lucky, Kind, Like, Garden

Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.

- Brian May

Queen, Very, Tend, Personal Things

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

- Brian May

Children, Poor, Always, Sanctions

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

- Brian May

Doing, Never Expect, Beck, Every Time

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.

- Brian May

Chance, Lottery, Becoming, Passing

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

- Brian May

Someone, General, Surf, Sluggish

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

- Brian May

Everybody, Wanting, Still, Eccentric

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

- Brian May

Person, Beaches, Would, Sitting

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

- Brian May

Thought, Pretty, Before, Hendrix

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

- Brian May

Never, Nine, Albums, Orchestra

The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are.

- Brian May

Love, I Think, Very, Disaster

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

- Brian May

Through, Crises, Months, Peaks

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

- Brian May

Grit, Kind, Else, Excitement

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

- Brian May

Achievement, Big, About, Harmonies

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

- Brian May

Pretty, Like, Concerned, As Far As

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

- Brian May

Queen, Which, Perfectly, Killer

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

- Brian May

Astronomy, More, Astronomer, Fun

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

- Brian May

Think, Through, Becoming, Flick

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

- Brian May

Death, Wedding, Bit, March

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.

- Brian May

Beginning, Queen, Had, Band

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.

- Brian May

Queen, Alive, Some, Viewed

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

- Brian May

Behind, Weapon, Shield, Guitar

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.

- Brian May

Great, Magic, Way, Repeat

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.

- Brian May

Other, Very, Internal, Astronomy

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

- Brian May

Listening, Other, Took, Seriously

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