"When the whole point of Queen was to be original."

--

Freddie Mercury

“I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.”
“After school, I went to Damascus to study law and history, which I didn't really like. I didn't like history, in particular. In Syria, the regime was trying to present to us a distorted version of the past. Assad was shown as the father of history. So I decided to shift to film, which was something I had always loved as a teenager.”
“Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange.”
“Forget your sadness, anger, grudges and hatred. Let them pass like smoke caught in a breeze. Do not indulge yourself in such feelings.”
“You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.”
“It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.”
“I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.”

Source : "Pharaoh's revenge" by Stephen Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.
“Ability is God-given, prowess is earned,”

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