Explore Quotes by Brian May

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 designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.

A good video can make all the difference

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

To my mind Keep Yourself Alive was never really satisfactory. Never had that magic that it should have had.

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer

At the moment the Queen stuff does sell really well, but there's no guarantee it'll go on forever

From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band

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

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.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

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.

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

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

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

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

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

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

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 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 very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.