Best Freddie Mercury Quotes & Sayings

It's not a question of money anymore. I spend money like it's nothing. You know, I could be penniless tomorrow, but I'd get back, somehow. — Freddie Mercury

My songs are like Bic razors. For fun, for modern consumption. You listen to it, like it, discard it, then on to the next. Disposable pop. — Freddie Mercury

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman. — Kate Beckinsale

The bigger the better; in everything. — Freddie Mercury

There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent. — Fergie

There are some singers that have great technique and then there are those that have a certain quality or style in their voice. Some have both, like Freddie Mercury, but to me, I prefer style over technique. — Ozzy Osbourne

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury. — Brandi Carlile

If you see it there, darling, then it's there. -Freddie Mercury, when asked the meaning of his lyrics. — Freddie Mercury

When I'm dead who cares? I don't ... — Freddie Mercury

I never thought of myself as the leader. The most important person, perhaps. — Freddie Mercury

You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible. — Kacey Musgraves

I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear! — Freddie Mercury

I watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the way that he just truly went with his voice. — Dave Mustaine

The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way he approaches making albums, and the way he wants to be better than everyone else? That's reminiscent of Freddie Mercury. That's reminiscent of the Beatles. — Jack Antonoff

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject. — Freddie Mercury

Born to be kings, we're the princes of the Universe! — Freddie Mercury

My favourite song is Someone To Love. That is more like me than the other stuff, as it was the only one I was actually able to create from the bottom up. I call it an homage, not a remake. It is an homage to Freddie Mercury, because I don't think people can really remake Freddie Mercury. That's why we did a gospel version. — Brittany Murphy

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70 ... — Freddie Mercury

I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about. — Taylor Hawkins

I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius. — Lady Gaga

I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy. — Freddie Mercury

I feel clobbered by the impossibility of translating into words as much of this enormous world we live in with its subtly complex and sprawling Periodic Table of emotions. To quote Freddie Mercury, I want it all. — David Mitchell

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show. — Freddie Mercury

I dress to kill, but tastefully. — Freddie Mercury

I think my melodies are superior to my lyrics. — Freddie Mercury

If you loved music, you loved Freddie Mercury. — Neil Sedaka

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part. — Mindy Kaling

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs. — Gary Cherone

Freddie Mercury inspired me when I was young. — Brittany Howard

Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid. — Freddie Mercury

The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us, and we want to be dandy. — Freddie Mercury

By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there. — Freddie Mercury