John Deacon Quotes
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Live Aid turned our world upside down.
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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.
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Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
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Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.
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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.
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We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.
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Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.
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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.
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I have a few personal ambitions for the band.
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That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.
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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.
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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.
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You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.
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I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.
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Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.
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Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.
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No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.
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I'll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.
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Four personalities are bound to clash.
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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.
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The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.
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When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
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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.
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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.