Brian May
Brian May
Brian Harold May, CBEis an English musician, singer, songwriter and astrophysicist, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. He uses a home-built electric guitar, called the Red Special. His compositions for the band include "We Will Rock You", "Tie Your Mother Down", "I Want It All", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "The Prophet's Song", "Flash", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "Who Wants to Live Forever" and "The Show Must Go On"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth19 July 1947
CityLondon, England
Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.
I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.
...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.
I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else
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.
The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.
I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.