John Deacon Quotes

Live Aid turned our world upside down.

- John Deacon

I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.

- John Deacon

No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

- John Deacon

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

- John Deacon

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

- John Deacon

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

- John Deacon

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.

- John Deacon

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

- John Deacon

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

- John Deacon

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

- John Deacon

Four personalities are bound to clash.

- John Deacon

I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

- John Deacon

When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

- John Deacon

In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.

- John Deacon

Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

- John Deacon

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

- John Deacon

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

- John Deacon

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

- John Deacon

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

- John Deacon

I like touring, I like being in the studio, a bit of both. I like to have a bit of time at home as well.

- John Deacon

I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.

- John Deacon

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

- John Deacon

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

- John Deacon

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

- John Deacon

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

- John Deacon

Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.

- John Deacon

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

- John Deacon

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.

- John Deacon