I go to restaurants and the groups always play "Yesterday." I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us "Yesterday." He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing "I Am The Walrus."
I wish that every young man when he begins to write music would not concern himself with being a melodist, a harmonist, a realist, an idealist or a futurist or any other such devilish pedantic things. Melody and harmony should be simply tools in the hands of the artist, with which he creates music; and if a day comes when people stop talking about the German school, the Italian school, the past, the future, etc., etc., then art will perhaps come into its own.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it, my music, I know I will live forever.
You know something? There's been a lot of rumors lately about a certain band called Queen. The rumors are that we're gonna split up. What do you think? [audience replies "No!" ] [Pointing to his posterior] They're talking from here! My apologies, but I get to say what I want. So you can forget these rumors. We're gonna stay together until we fucking well die, I'm sure of it. I keep, I must tell you, I keep wanting to leave, but they won't let me. We're not bad for four aging queens, really, are we? What do you think?
Well, over the years, I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing.
It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover.
The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.
Music is a very important and powerful substance, and all the planets in the universe make music. It's called music of the spheres. They all make a different note; they make harmony. So there's harmony even in the universe as we speak.
As a band, we're playing together better than we ever have. And we're really proud of (title of new album/greatest-hits package with one new song), so while we know people like to hear the old ones, we hope they also dig the new stuff.