The Most Inspirational Freddie Mercury Quotes Of All Time

March 2024 · 2 minute read

"I really do love performing. I mean, it's totally natural for me. I'm a dandy, a show off. I get very high on all the attention. I love it." — Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic by Mark Blake

"I change when I walk out on stage. I totally transform into this 'ultimate showman.' I say that because that's what I must be. I can't be second best. I would rather give up. I know I have to strut. I know I have to hold the mic and stand a certain way. And I love it." – Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury by Lesley Ann Jones

"I never tie my own shoelace, I mean never! It's just not the thing done in rock and roll." — Backstage footage, Houston, 1977

"I'm not going to be a pop star. I'm going to be a legend." — Days of Our Lives, BBC Documentary

"It would be so boring to be seventy." — Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic

On whether he had any hobbies: "Yeah, I have a lot of sex." — Leiden interview, 1984

"I don't expect to make old bones, and what's more I don't really care." – Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic

"I'm a man of extremes. I have a soft side and a hard side, with not a lot in between. If the right person finds be I can be very vulnerable, a real baby, which is invariably when I get trodden on. But sometimes I'm hard, and when I'm strong, no one can get to me." – Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

"It's surprising, really, that we had so much confidence, even in those days, when absolutely nothing was happening. I suppose we always had a good time." — Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic 

"No, myself as an artist — I'm just a musical prostitute, dear." — Munich interview, 1984

"Mercury isn't my real name, dear. I changed it from Pluto." — Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic

"I have visions of actually having a film made of my life story, one day, which I would have a key part in. I might not play the lead myself. My dears, the things I've done in my lifetime ... it'll be totally triple-X-rated, I'll tell you!" – Freddie Mercury: His Life in His Own Words

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