Brian May Quotes

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

I have a lot of maneuvers in my back pocket, so to speak. And to me, the thing is to always surprise the audience so they're always seeing something new, and not just get stuck in the same rut.

We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

Theater is about surprises and things that you haven't seen before on stage.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

I always give the audience a variety because I want to make sure they hear the favorites and all that.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

None of my songs sound the same. None of them. I take R&B beats and put it as a rap song or hip-hop beats and put them as a R&B song. A lot of people are boring. I don't like boring music. Everybody sounds the same, like they copying.

If what you do in life is perform to open up eyes and minds, to make people laugh, then it better damn well be new! It shouldn't be just a repetitious 'Hey, I'm still here!'

I just try to keep it fresh without sacrificing funny.

The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.

Nobody's interested in something that could've been done before.

If it is just another run-of-the-mill show, then what is the point?

It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.

I constantly want to do something new and surprise the audience.

Thankfully, as much as Hollywood is interested in brands, I think people are still looking for originality and freshness.

We didn't want to just be a cover group, we wanted to do our music, to be a band. Once we were able to do it, it was a little scary, but it was also something inspiring - something new, fresh for us to get into. It was amazing to see the reaction of our fans.

You know, rock n' roll's an old carcass: it's one big cliche. It's so difficult to do anything that has any sense of freshness or vitality or meaning. But that's what I'm trying to do, to give it new meaning.

I always kept the fans happy. They always saw a different Rey, whether it was a mask, a design, a color. I never gave them the same thing twice and always kept them on their feet. They were always excited to see what Rey was going to bring to the table.

Every now and then I'll think of something to put back in the show. I just kind of play it off the top of my head. If I do it that way it keeps it kinda fresh.

I want people to come to the game to see what I will do next.

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.