Occupation: Musician Birth: July 19, 1947
I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designe….
The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it..
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 sayin….
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition..
A Queen track has those big, thick, block harmonies..
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..
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair..
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 fram….
Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh..
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….
I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast..
Mantovani was a great influence on me..
I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish..
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions..
...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 q….
What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound..
My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player..
There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat..
I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time..
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 inno….
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..