Brian May Quotes

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.

The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

I sing because I love it. People may come to my shows because they are curious about 'Wonder Woman' but I hope they return because they enjoy my singing.

Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers of joy, of ecstasy.

I love shows. I love being with fans. It keeps you inspired.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Music is a dialogue.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

I think music is a powerful medium because it co-inspires. It inspires the artist who then inspires the listener, and it's a back-and-forth process.

It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

What we play is life.

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.