Brian May Quotes

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic.

There's only one degree of freshness — the first, which makes it also the last

I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

A live show is something that can never ever be duplicated on a computer.

It's always nice for the judges and the audiences to have something a bit different so they don't always see and hear the same thing.

I love that sense of discovery. You're experiencing something for the first time, and your parents aren't in on it, previous generations aren't in on it. It has a chance to belong to you and your generation in a way that nothing has. If 'Pacific Rim' is a fraction of that, I would be very proud.

Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable.

Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.

And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted - but a performance, even if somebody's there with a video camera, is one time only: the audience experiences something that won't exist when the performance is over, and which won't ever be reproduced in exactly the same form. I find that appealing.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are.

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

Every day is different, there's no day that's the same.

You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the foot-prints of any other; you shall not see the face of man; you shall not hear any name; the way, the thought, the good, shall be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience.

Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.