139 Quotes by Brian May

The music itself is very challenging, so I've never really felt the lack of stimulation. I love to be creating; I love to be making things and solving problems, I suppose, and when I'm not, then I'm not an incredibly good person to be around. If I'm not busy, then I think I would be disaster. That's just the way things are.

I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else

I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

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

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer