You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time
Freddie MercuryRead
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Interpretation
Freddie Mercury expresses a desire for his legacy to reflect his contributions to music positively.
In this quote, Freddie Mercury reveals his aspiration to be remembered not just as an artist, but as one whose work had significant value and depth. He emphasizes the importance of leaving a meaningful legacy that signifies his talent and passion for music, indicating that the quality of his art matters more to him than fame or recognition.
In practice
In a tribute speech at a music awards ceremony.
You're headed for disaster cos you never read the signs Too much love will kill you every time
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
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.
I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
People are always asking me what my lyrics mean. Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. F**k them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analyze his work: If you see it, dear, then it's there. ... I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. ... 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.
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 .
The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.
The music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up.
If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.
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