Brian leaving Queen?

Hello everybody a few days ago during a press conference in Rome announcing some concerts with Kerry Ellis, Brian May said: 'Adam è stato molto bravo a non imitare Freddie, ripartiamo ma non so quanto potrà andare avanti, perché lui ha la sua carriera, e a me piace suonare con i Queen, ma non tutto il tempo e non per sempre'
I kind of try to translate the most accurately as possible.
'Adam has been very good in not pretending to be Freddie. We are restarting (concerts in South America) but i really don't know how long it can last, as adam has his own carrer. I like playing with Queen, but not all the time and not forever'.
Of course he said those things in english, but i am not able to find the original audio.
Italian newspapers have intended as Brian would one day leave Queen, as John did.
What do you think? For me as a Queen enthusiast, reading these lines was quite shocking.

Eventually they'll retire. Simple as.
The time will come soon enough when the tours will cease and the best we'll get is the odd short appearance (as Queen) and solo just as we did 15 years ago.

"I like playing with Queen"

In a band that calls themselves Queen....

Well this is no surprise, and it was never a surprise. It was always meant to be temporary, but it just snowballed. I don't think they could have predicted that a world tour would work out in their favour when they first started. Forgetting what people think of the artistic merits, it has largely been a success. But it is a back-catalogue touring act, and they've never denied that.

Of course Adam Lambert can't be the full time lead singer of Queen if he wants to have a life long career - in 5 or 10 years time, but more likely 5, Brian and Roger will most probably be too old to play Queen songs live, and they probably know it, and Adam will work on his own career.

Who knows what they'll do, surely there'll come a time for them to retire from live performance.

I'm happy because that would mean that Brian and Roger are going to keep their solo careers active, and play the ocassional Queen song. To me that's better than Q+Whatever.

"that would mean that Brian and Roger are going to keep their solo careers active"

What would they be then?

I can't imagine Brian going on forever, to tell the truth, over QP to lead the releases and things like that, yeah, but not playing till he reach the 100 years. Brian has other interests, like the animals or the space, don't forget he is also a scientist.

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Well that was highly unnecessary...

Finally!

Like the Rolling Stones they'll be playing till they drop dead on stage :)

He won't 'cause leaving Queen ain't easy.
At least a million things calling him back.

How can Brian leave Queen? Queen is no more. You sureley mean his and Rogers cover band Queen+

The easier situation I can imagine is a comeback to what Queen were before the Q+PR project, they could play in some occasion like the marvellous Queen show during the Prince's Trust Rock Gala in 2011 or the Pavarotti and Friends one in 2003 .

In my opinion i'm glad about this new solo Brian's project and about the new things Roger is gonna do like soundtracks and solo stuff. I love Brian and Roger as much as I could do with my friends so I'm glad they are gonna stop the Adam Lambert projects to enjoy their new interests.