Freddie Mercury Quotes

You know when you know you’ve gone rotten? Really rotten? Fruit flies. Dirty, little fruit flies. Coming to feast on what’s left.

We’re four misfits who don’t belong together, playing to the other misfits. The outcasts right at the back of the room, who are pretty sure they don’t belong either. We belong to them.[about Queen]

No looking back. Only forward.

If any of you fuss about it or frown about it, or, worst of all, if you bore me with your sympathy, that’s just seconds wasted. Seconds that could be used making music, which is all I want to do with the time I have left. I don’t have time to be their victim, their AIDS poster boy, their cautionary tale. No, I decide who I am. I’m going to be what I was born to be. A performer… who gives the people what they want. Touch of the heavens. Freddie f***ing Mercury.[about his illness]

Being human is a condition that requires a little anesthesia.

They say money can’t buy happiness, darlings! But it does allow you to give it away!

When I know they’re listening, when I know I really have them, I couldn’t sing off-key if I tried. I’m exactly the person I was always meant to be. I’m not afraid of anything.

I live in Britain. I don’t want to stand out.[Reporter: Why don’t you get your teeth fixed?]

Formulas are a complete and utter waste of time.

All of the darkness you thought you left behind comes creeping back in.

You’re bloody right I am. We’re all legends.[Roger Taylor: You’re a legend, Fred.]

We believe in each other. And that’s everything. For us.[to Mary]