"Jimi Hendrix is very important. He's my idol. He sort of epitomizes, from his presentation on stage, the whole works of a rock star. There's no way you can compare him. You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it. There's nobody who can take his place."

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Source : "Queen's Freddie Mercury Shopping For An Image In London". Interview with Scott Cohen, Circus Magazine, www.queenarchives.com. April 1975.

Freddie Mercury

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“Women should stick together. Didnâ€™t you learn anything yet?”

Source : Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.23, Macmillan
“I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom .Â .Â . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was .Â .Â . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.”
“Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.”
“Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.”
“I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a musician, as an artist, record producer, you name it.”
“Work is no longer challenging.”
“Referrals are very powerful. When I refer you, I give a little bit of my reputation away. If you do a good job, my friend that hired you is pleased. But if you do a bad job, that reflects badly on me. People forget that.”
“Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.”

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