John Deacon Quotes

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

  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

• When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it’s a lot easier.

  John Deacon

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

  John Deacon

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

  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

• 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

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

  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

• Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, 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

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

  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

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

  John Deacon

• Live Aid turned our world upside down.

  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

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

  John Deacon

• I wouldn’t do go to another band.

  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

• I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

  John Deacon

John Deacon (30)

Birth:	19th August, 1951
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Bassist, Composer, Lyricist

About

John Richard Deacon was born in Leicester, England. He is an English bassist, composer and songwriter, best known for being the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He composed several singles for the group-including Top 10 hits "You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bites the Dust", "Back Chat", and "I Want to Break Free"-and was involved in the band's financial management. He studied at Electronic Engineering, Chelsea College, University of London. His albums list (with rock band Queen) shown below: Queen, Queen II, Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera, A Day at the Races, News of the World, Jazz, The Game, Hot Space, The Works, A Kind of Magic, The Miracle, Innuendo, and Made in Heaven.

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