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
What this quote means
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.
Themes
MusicianLegacyFreddie MercuryMusicArt
In practice
Example use cases
In a tribute speech at a music awards ceremony.
More from Freddie Mercury
All quotes βI have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
Freddie MercuryRead
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.
Freddie MercuryRead
I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.
Freddie MercuryRead
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.
Freddie MercuryRead
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 .
Freddie MercuryRead
Similar quotes
Computer programming is an art, because it applies accumulated knowledge to the world, because it requires skill and ingenuity, and especially because it produces objects of beauty. A programmer who subconsciously views himself as an artist will enjoy what he does and will do it better.
Donald KnuthRead
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.
Alan WattsRead
Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.
Henry JamesRead
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Norman RockwellRead
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
Norman MailerRead
It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.
Alice MunroRead