John Deacon famous quotes

03-24-2025

If I could sing, it would be lovely.
-- John Deacon

#Lovely #Would Be
Four personalities are bound to clash.
-- John Deacon

#Personality #Four #Clash
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

#Home #Touring #Wells
Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
-- John Deacon

#Health #Air #Argument
The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.
-- John Deacon

#New Day #New Life #Band
You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.
-- John Deacon

#Children #School #Catholic
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

#Light #Dollars #Needs
I wouldn't do go to another band.
-- John Deacon

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

#Long #Plans #Bottom
Live Aid turned our world upside down.
-- John Deacon

#Our World #World #Upside Down
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

#Old Things #Bass #Firsts
When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.
-- John Deacon

#Records #Easier #Nobody Knows
I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.
-- John Deacon

#Princess #Shy #Diana
Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.
-- John Deacon

#Queens #Long #Together
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.
-- John Deacon

#Math #Sides #Students
Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
-- John Deacon

#Writing #Majority #Brian
Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
-- John Deacon

#Song #Writing #Groups
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

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

#Lifestyle #Changed #Changed My Life
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

#Beach #Segregation #Bus
I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.
-- John Deacon

#Want #Mercury #Nasty
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

#Mean #Next #Faces
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

#Song #Albums #Firsts
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

#Country #Thinking #Albums

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