Mercury Quotes

“Freddie’s attitude was always, ‘But you can, don’t you see? You can do it. Put your mind to it, you’ll see what you can do.’ That was one of the loveliest things about him.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“We would never let anyone else see when we were wounded, but we’d show each other. We both had things to hide from our families, for example.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“Fuck them, darling, if they just don’t get it,” retorted Freddie.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“All artists are terribly insecure people. They are desperate to be noticed.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“He’s very private now,” commented Brian. “He communicates by emails when there’s a business discussion, but that’s it.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“An international celebrity, he said, was better off “leaving politics to the chaps who are paid to do the job, dear.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“Technically, the song’s a mess. It follows no known conventional nor commercial formula. It is just a string of dreams, flashbacks, flash-forwards, vignettes, completely disjointed ideas. It changes sequence, color, tone, tempo, all for no apparent reason—which is exactly what opera does.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“Technically, the song’s a mess. It follows no known conventional nor commercial formula. It is just a string of dreams, flashbacks, flash-forwards, vignettes, completely disjointed ideas. It changes sequence, color, tone, tempo, all for”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“The Zendavesta, or sacred scriptures, contain no formal commandments, but simply the “Three Good Things” by which Parsees have long tried to live. “Humata, Hukhta, Huvareshta”: “good thoughts, good words, good deeds.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“When the chosen ones arrived at the studio, they were confronted with a sign instructing them to “please check your egos at the door.” They were also met by an impish Stevie Wonder, informing them that if the song wasn’t up to scratch nor down in one take, he and fellow blind artist Ray Charles would be driving them all home.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“One of my hardest moments was unveiling”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography

“If somebody tells us it’s rubbish, then our attitude is that the person’s misguided, rather than that we are rubbish.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Bohemian Rhapsody: The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury

“I remember him launching into “Radio Ga Ga”. It wasn’t even dark, he was whipping up all this magic in daylight. That ocean of fans clapping and stamping together just sent shivers down your spine. For us, it was heaven.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Bohemian Rhapsody: The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury

“We didn’t write it at the time. We took notes, as journalists did in those days, by committing quotes to memory, then making our excuses and heading for the bathroom, where we’d scribble into our notebooks before the booze set in.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

“He was ‘always busy, seldom rushed. It was a pleasant, convivial lifestyle’.”
― Lesley-Ann Jones, Freddie Mercury: The Definitive Biography