Freddie Mercury Quotes

A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrica! event.

- Freddie Mercury

I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.

- Freddie Mercury

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

- Freddie Mercury

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?

- Freddie Mercury

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

- Freddie Mercury

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got.

- Freddie Mercury

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

- Freddie Mercury

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.

- Freddie Mercury

One night Roger was in a foul mood and he threw his entire bloody drumset across the stage. The thing only just missed me - I might have been killed.

- Freddie Mercury

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

- Freddie Mercury

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.

- Freddie Mercury

The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

- Freddie Mercury

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.

- Freddie Mercury

It destroys the soul to hear that you're all hype, that you have no talent, and that your whole career has been contrived.

- Freddie Mercury

Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin.

- Freddie Mercury

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

- Freddie Mercury

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

- Freddie Mercury

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics.

- Freddie Mercury

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

- Freddie Mercury

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology.

- Freddie Mercury

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

- Freddie Mercury

In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew.

- Freddie Mercury

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

- Freddie Mercury

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

- Freddie Mercury

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

- Freddie Mercury

The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.

- Freddie Mercury

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid.

- Freddie Mercury

I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.

- Freddie Mercury

We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

- Freddie Mercury

If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

- Freddie Mercury

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

- Freddie Mercury

I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter.

- Freddie Mercury

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

- Freddie Mercury

I like to be surrounded by splendid things.

- Freddie Mercury

Who wants to live forever?

- Freddie Mercury

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

- Freddie Mercury

But, you know, we spent two years putting our act together.

- Freddie Mercury