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The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

Brian May

Music

Play

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about.

Brian May

Nothing

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Brian May

Belief

Magic

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

Brian May

Danger

Hair

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.

Brian May

First

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

I was actually perfectly happy when I had no money, which lasted right up until we had a hit with Killer Queen, in 1974. I never wanted for anything.

I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it.

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

Brian May

Thought

Pretty