What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

Each gig should be unique. You're always treading that line between keeping yourself fresh and giving people something they want to hear

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.

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

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

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

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.

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

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.

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

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

If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of the time you have.

Communities that can't read and translate what the powers are putting out will always be tricked.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

...said Nicklaus, 'was a brotherhood, I suppose'.

I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.

Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Then why are we being shot at? (Syd) ’Cause the sonofabitch can’t tell time. (Steele)

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.