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“Our society is run by insane people”

“We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft. Quoted by Hunter Davies in The Beatles”

“I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together I Am the Walrus ,”

“Very rich. Asked how he felt about a Beatles' Shea Stadium concert not selling out; Pop Chronicles : Show 38”

“I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti”

“Christianity will go.. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now ; I don't know which will go first”

“One cave she wolf go too farther, and I wolf leaf her”

“It was a load of rubbish. It was like meeting Engelbert Humperdinck . Later comments on meeting Elvis , as quoted in The Beatles: The Biography (2005) by Bob Spitz, p. 583.”

“There's only one person in the United States we ever wanted to meet … not that he wanted us. And we met him last night. We can't tell you how we felt. We just idolised him so much. … You can't imagine what a thrill that was last night. Nothing really affected me until I heard Elvis . If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles. Statement (28 August 1965) after meeting Elvis Presley , as quoted in The Leading Men of MGM (2005) by Jane Ellen Wayne, p. 386; also partly quoted in The Beatles: The Authorized Biography (1968) by Hunter Davies, p. 19”

“The remark provoked warm laughter and applause, and was greeted with profound relief by Beatles manager Brian Epstein , who had feared Lennon would make good on his pre”

“I would have loved to have been on the Band Aid record but I only heard about it when I was in Germany. I don’t know if they would have had me on the record anyway, because I’m a bit old. I’m just an old slag who gets up every morning, scratches his head and wonders what he wants to fuck. As quoted in "Blame it on Rio" by Robin Smith, in Record Mirror (26 January 1985) .”

“Hello everybody! Hey hey hey! Okay! Do you know it's not... it's not very often that we do shows in daylight. And I fucking wish we'd done before, I can see you all now. And there's some beauties here tonight, I can tell you! Live at Milton Keynes Bowl (5 June 1982) .”

“Listen, if you guys wanna move around and shift your asses a little, it's okay. It's okay by us, right? You can take all your clothes off if you like too, doesn't matter... Fuck off! [laughs] During a concert in Montreal, Canada, (24 or 25 November 1981), first released as videotape We Will Rock You (1984) , and later on DVD as Queen Rock Montreal (2007).”

“The Man Who Would Be Queen”

“For A Song : The Mercury that's rising in rock is Freddie the satiny seductor of Queen”

“Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London”

“I hate pockets in trousers … By the way, I do not wear a hose. My hose is my own. No coke bottle, nothing stuffed down there. As quoted in NME (2 November 1974) .”

“I'm as gay as a daffodil, my dear!”

“Standing Up For Queen”

“It all began with the three wise men, followed a star took them to Bethelehem, and made it heard throughout the land”

“as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory. When you're young, you're still”

“David Bowie: An Obituary”

“Looking back at David Bowie's invaluable advice for young artists”

“Of course I do!!!! its some cunt in a clown suit.”

“Music has given me over 40 years of extraordinary experiences. I can't say that life's pains or more tragic episodes have been diminished because of it. But it's allowed me so many moments of companionship when I've been lonely and a sublime means of communication when I wanted to touch people . It's been both my doorway of perception and the house that I live in. I only hope that it embraces you with the same lusty life force that it graciously offered me. Commencement Address for the Berklee College of Music, at Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts”

“I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants. Interviewed in Q magazine”

“Sermon From the Savoy”

“I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians. 1983 Comment, quoted in Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies 15th Edition (2003) by Leslie Halliwell, p. 60”

“I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. Quoted in the chapter on Bowie in Valentines & Vitriol (1978) by Rex Reed”

“Fuck that. I want to be a superman.”