Art gives me the freedom I don't have when I make music. In music you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary.
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Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.
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We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.
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For all three of us, the Caracalla concert was a major event in our lives. I hope I am not immodest to think it was also unforgettable for most of the people who were present.
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For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad of tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexible order gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves. I would like to hold them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stopping one, there would only remain in my hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
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This isn't music and we're not a band. We're five middle fingers on a mother f-ckin' hand.
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I feel thoroughly contemptible as a musician, whereas you, as I have now convinced myself, are the greatest musician of all times.
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What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a Tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?
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