Top 90 Freddie Mercury Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don’t like Star Wars.”

— Freddie Mercury

53. “A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That’s the kind of world I live in. It’s very sort of flamboyant, and that’s the kind of way I write. I love it.”

— Freddie Mercury

54. “If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.”

— Freddie Mercury

55. “I’m so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I’m performing I’m an extrovert, yet inside I’m a completely different man.”

— Freddie Mercury

56. “I never carry money, just like the real Queen. If I fancy something in a shop I always ask someone on our staff to buy it.”

— Freddie Mercury

57. “Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I’m never scared of putting myself out on a limb.”

— Freddie Mercury

58. “I’m as gay as a daffodil, my dear!”

— Freddie Mercury

59. “When the whole point of Queen was to be original.”

— Freddie Mercury

60. “There’s one thing we’re all waiting for, it’s Peace on earth and end to war, it’s the miracle we need... The Miracle!”

— Freddie Mercury

61. “In terms of love, you’re not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I’m a very tragic person. But there’s always an element of humour at the end.”

— Freddie Mercury

62. “I am a romantic, but I do put up a barrier around myself, so it is hard for people to get in and to know the real me.”

— Freddie Mercury

63. “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

64. “If you see it there, darling, then it’s there.”

— Freddie Mercury

65. “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

66. “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

67. “The others don’t like my interviews. And frankly, I don’t care much for theirs.”

— Freddie Mercury

68. “We’ve gone overboard on every Queen album. But that’s Queen.”

— Freddie Mercury

69. “By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there.”

— Freddie Mercury

70. “If you see it there, darling, then it’s there.” -Freddie Mercury, when asked the meaning of his lyrics.”

— Freddie Mercury

71. “Onstage, I am a devil. But I’m hardly a social reject.”

— Freddie Mercury

72. “Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind of success they’re getting.”

— Freddie Mercury

73. “They wouldn’t let us into Russia. They thought we’d corrupt the youth or something.”

— Freddie Mercury

74. “It’s not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it’s nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I’d get back, somehow.”

— Freddie Mercury

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

— Freddie Mercury

76. “The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us, and we want to be dandy.”

— Freddie Mercury

77. “My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop.”

— Freddie Mercury

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

— Freddie Mercury

79. “The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I’ve got to convince the others.”

— Freddie Mercury

80. “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

81. “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

82. “Put out the good and keep the bad – don’t believe all you read in the Bible.”

— Freddie Mercury

83. “I’m not into business at all.”

— Freddie Mercury

84. “A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It’s a theatrica! event.”

— Freddie Mercury

85. “We’re a bit flashy, but the music’s not one big noise.”

— Freddie Mercury

86. “Robert Plant was always my favorite singer-and hes said nice things about me, you know.”

— Freddie Mercury

87. “Jimi Hendrix is very important. He’s my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There’s no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don’t. There’s no way you can work up to it. There’s nobody who can take his place.”

— Freddie Mercury

88. “What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?”

— Freddie Mercury

89. “The more you open up, the more you get hurt. So basically, I’m just riddled with scars and I just don’t want any more.”

— Freddie Mercury

90. “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

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

94. “If we’re weird onstage, I don’t know what you’d call the Tubes.”

— Freddie Mercury

95. “Born to be kings, we’re the princes of the Universe!”

— Freddie Mercury

96. “I can’t win. Love is Russian roulette for me. No one loves the real me inside. they’re all in love with my fame, my stardom. I fall in love far too quickly and end up getting hurt all the time. I’ve got scars all over. But I can’t help myself because basically I’m a softie I have this hard, macho shell – which I project on stage but there’s a much softer side. too, which melts like butter.”

— Freddie Mercury