Roger Taylor Quotes

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Roger Taylor

Profession : Musician

Birth : July 26, 1949

I am a little deaf now. Without my hearing aids in, I miss a lot of peripheral sounds. I had tinnitus, too, for a while.

Roger Taylor

It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.

Roger Taylor

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

Roger Taylor

I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

Roger Taylor

Freddie was very much able to ride the neutral wave. We all respected his views because he was such a great songwriter. It was his idea that we share all the credits. It was decided all the songs would be attributed equally to Queen. That immediately got rid of the arguments. That was a fantastic, democratic notion.

Roger Taylor

I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.

Roger Taylor

I shall think of Freddie Mercury every day - maybe for a moment, maybe for longer.

Roger Taylor

You can't supervise your own history.

Roger Taylor

We really put on a very high energy rock n' roll show. We don't go around with our noses in the air. We're very crazy. But I think when we did 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' people thought we take ourselves very seriously.

Roger Taylor

Once a musician, always a musician.

Roger Taylor

When hearing aids were first mentioned, I pictured myself as that old geezer at the back of the church with the whistling ear trumpet, but you can't see these Phonak hearing aids, and people don't realise you've got them in.

Roger Taylor

It's been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.

Roger Taylor

Everybody's got an opinion, and I was just lucky enough to have an outlet for mine.

Roger Taylor

'We Will Rock You' we didn't think was a single. We almost saw it like an introduction to 'We Are the Champions,' which is a more classic, very grand song.

Roger Taylor

One Christmas, when Freddie and I were flatmates in Kensington, we were trying to cook Christmas dinner, but all we had was a packet of bread sauce that you make with water. We used to dream of a can of beans.

Roger Taylor

The idea of having proper qualifications had been very much ingrained in me. My father had a steady job for the Potato Marketing Board, and the family emphasis was on getting to university.

Roger Taylor

There are an awful lot of bands out there doing our old act. An awful lot of fake moustaches and underwhelming performances.

Roger Taylor

Freddie had this unbelievable power and stamina. He had range both in his voice and in style. It's hard to find someone that can do everything he could do.

Roger Taylor

We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.

Roger Taylor

Rock bands were never newsworthy. In the '60s and '70s, rock bands weren't in the newspapers because they weren't considered mainstream; they wouldn't sell papers.

Roger Taylor