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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."

"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."

"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."

"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."
Explore more quotes by Brian May

"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."

"I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it."

"Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do."

"I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition."

"There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in."

"I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement."

"For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil."
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