We really put on a very high energy rock n’ roll show. We don’t go around with our noses in the air. We’re very crazy. But I think when we did ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ people thought we take ourselves very seriously. Roger Taylor Read Quote
Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the ’60s and ’70s, rock bands weren’t in the newspapers because they weren’t considered mainstream; they wouldn’t sell papers. Roger Taylor Read Quote
We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, ‘Queen,’ in 1971 while I was studying for my biology finals – it is amazing I passed. Roger Taylor Read Quote
The sicker Freddie got, the more he seemed to need to record, to give himself something to do, some sort of reason to get up. Roger Taylor Read Quote
We’ve been fairly eclectic in our time, and we did branch out. Whenever we got a little bit too far out, people started to moan and groan a bit. Roger Taylor Read Quote
I didn’t take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine. Roger Taylor Read Quote
I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they’re bound by that make it impossible for them to be efficient. Roger Taylor Read Quote
When ‘We Will Rock You,’ the musical, launched, I was amazed at how successful it was. It attracted a new generation of fans. Freddie would have loved it. He was quite into that sort of stuff. Roger Taylor Read Quote
There aren’t many good frontmen around anymore. Where are they? I can’t think of a really young band with a great front person. Roger Taylor Read Quote
Freddie was very much able to ride the neutral wave. We all respected his views because he was such a great songwriter. It was his idea that we share all the credits. It was decided all the songs would be attributed equally to Queen. That immediately got rid of the arguments. That was a fantastic, democratic notion. Roger Taylor Read Quote
