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• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  Brian May

  Spiritual, Stars, Simple

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• I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

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  Spring, Knitting Needles, Interesting

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• We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

  Brian May

  Play, Important, Vacuums

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• There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in

  Brian May

  Queens, Albums

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• ...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!

  Brian May

  Men, Thinking, Views

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• I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.

  Brian May

  Nice, Guy, Signing

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• There's nothing I'm embarrassed about

  Brian May

  Embarrassed

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• I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

  Brian May

  Thinking, Choices, Musician

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Brian May

  Hurt, Children, Glitter

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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.

  Brian May

  Trying, Firsts, Study

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• I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

  Brian May

  Groups, Albums, Fart

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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.

  Brian May

  Funny, Money, Asteroids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis

  Brian May

  Thinking, Oasis, Including

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• 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

  Creativity, Animal, Months

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• I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

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  Writing, Guitar, Keyboards

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• This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several hundred comments on this topic and nothing can be added here.

  Brian May

  Men, Rocks, Voice

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• On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

  Brian May

  Song, Albums, Shapes

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• You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

  Brian May

  Art, Media, Blood

  Song: We Will Rock You

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• Mantovani was a great influence on me.

  Brian May

  Influence, Great Influence

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• A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies.

  Brian May

  Queens, Block, Track

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• 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

  Guitar, Views, Way

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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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  Mistake, People, Waiting

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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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  Queens, Home, Cutting

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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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  Queens, Years, Building Up

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• Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

  Brian May

  Queens, Eras, Moments

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