American - Musician | July 26, 1949 -
My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me to get some qualifications, and I ended up winning a choral scholarship to a cathedral school.
Roger Taylor
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When hearing aids were first mentioned, I pictured myself as that old geezer at the back of the church with the whistling ear trumpet, but you can't see these Phonak hearing aids, and people don't realise you've got them in.
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Nobody does our music better than us.
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If somebody's going to represent our music live, I'd like to see it represented with excellence and spectacularly and with really great musicianship.
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I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day - maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.
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I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.
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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.
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Freddie obviously knew he was ill long before we did. We knew there was something wrong, but we didn't know what it was. He told us eventually. We didnt want to believe it was true. But we all stuck round him, formed a circle, and gave him support.
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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.
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We thought Queen were quite tongue in cheek.
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You can't supervise your own history.
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I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.
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