My favorite Freddie quote is kinda dumb, and kinda obscure. It's from one of the Argentina concerts in '81, before Save Me. He says: "This one features Brian May at the piano, or pianola, or whatever you guys call it!" Funny stuff!
He had so many great one-liners, both in interviews and in concerts. He was really an original.
Oh, wait... I cannot forget the Rock in Rio interviews where he has to answer a question in English, then the interviewer has to read the question again in Portuguese, for some reason.
Freddie provided a treasure's worth of one liners in that clip! The first one is: "And I already told you about that." Then of course, his famous: "This time, yes, I am the leader of the group!" Oh my lord, that was a priceless clip.
"I'm a bitch. I enjoy being surrounded by bitches. Boredom is the biggest desease in the world, darlin'. Sometimes I think there must be more to life than rushing round the world like a mad thing getting bored."
This one is my fave. Absoulutely the best, and so Freddie-like.:)
my favorite Freddie quote: "Oh Dear, the one thing I really hate are people on an internet noticeboard telling their favorite Freddie Mercury quotes. When I see those people I tell 'em to sod off and make up their own quotes" (~Freddie Mercury)
FriedChicken wrote: my favorite Freddie quote: "The one thing I really hate are people on an internet noticeboard telling their favorite Freddie Mercury quotes. When I see those people I tell 'em to sod off and make up their own quotes" (~Freddie Mercury)
You forgot the "Oh Dear" at the start and the "Darlings" at the end.
Mine was my former "signature":
"...I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear!"
And the second:
"My music is disposable pop -- one listen and then toss it away."
Thank God he was wrong about that one!
I've always liked the one in my profile. The first time I heard it in The Magic Years documentary, I wrote it down and put it on my wall.
I also liked when Freddie said something along the lines of, "Do you like my outfit? They're real diamonds. A gift from the devil himself. You don't believe me? They don't believe me!"
Here are a few more I like.
"I think I'm going to go mad in a few years time. I'm going to be one of those insane musicians."
"I need the extra teeth!"
"Fuck them, darling, if they just don't get it."
"Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened yet because none of us can agree on the order of the words."