Words matter. These are the best Marc Martel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was born in ’76, but I didn’t get into rock until the early ’90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.
Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.
My favorite song to perform is ‘Love of my Life.’
My biggest influences when I was a kid – I listened to a lot of top 40 radio, so whatever the big artists were, so, like, the mid-’80s.
If the Christian community responds to our music better because maybe we gained a little more credibility in the mainstream, then it’s not ideal, it’s not fun, it’s not sexy, but I’ll take it.
I’m the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.
My mom is the piano player in my dad’s church – she’s also the choir director – and she’s just a musician through and through.
I think people tend to cling to music when times are hard.
The Ultimate Queen Celebration is a little bit different. I take liberties with the amount of songs in the set that aren’t necessarily Queen songs. I take some freedoms with The Ultimate Queen Celebration that I can’t really do with The Queen Extravaganza.
People would come up to me, saying, ‘You sound a lot like the lead singer from Queen.’ I started wondering, ‘Who is this guy making me sound so unoriginal?’
Most of the music I grew up listening to was not Christian music, although I definitely had a lot of that at home, too.
I’m a huge mimic. That’s how I learned to sing. I listened to a lot of Freddy Mercury, obviously.
It sure is cool that I was mentioned in ‘Rolling Stone.’
No band has two hours’ worth of greatest hits, but Queen comes close.
I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.
I ended up taking piano lessons at a really young age, I took, like, years of piano lessons, and I always loved to sing.
I liken the Queen thing to being in a worship service. Everyone comes having grown up with this music. It’s in their blood, in their souls. Every night, it’s always a huge standing ovation.
Queen had incredible songwriters.
I grew up on a lot of gospel music.
I always loved music – it was always in the house – and my younger brother is musical, too.
People have been telling me for years that I sound like Freddie Mercury.
Being a professional musician with Downhere for 11 years now, I feel completely at home on stage.
Everyone has their own tastes. Some people want to feel like it’s Queen onstage, including the dress-up thing, but that’s not my style. I do know some people love that and wish I would do it, but I have no interest in that.
Rock n’ roll is the music where you can get away with pretty much saying everything, and it’s OK. You can say truths in really interesting and good ways and really express yourself through it.
My favorite thing about the Ultimate Queen Celebration is that we’re not afraid to explore a non-traditional Queen set list.
