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"We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear ."
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"In the early days, we just wore black onstage. Very bold, my dear. Then we introduced white, for variety, and it simply grew and grew."
Variety
"We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well."
Press
"We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen."
Queen
"I dress to kill, but tastefully."
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"Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin."
Beach
"The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs."
Care
"I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime."
Life
"When the whole point of Queen was to be original."
Queen
"I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me."
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"I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter."
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"If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it."
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"In opera, there is always too much singing."
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"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge."
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"I was interested in opera and it seemed to me that the only possible theatre for contemporary opera would be television. So I started working towards a kind of television kind of opera."
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"Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me."
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"Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic."
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"I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy."
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"In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play."
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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles."
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