John Deacon Quotes

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

  John Deacon

  Queens, Long, Together

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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.

  John Deacon

  Long, Plans, Bottom

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• Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

  John Deacon

  Health, Air, Argument

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• If I could sing, it would be lovely.

  John Deacon

  Lovely, Would Be, If I Could

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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.

  John Deacon

  Mean, Next Day, Faces

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• Four personalities are bound to clash.

  John Deacon

  Personality, Four, 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.

  John Deacon

  Home, Touring, Wells

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

  John Deacon

  Want, Mercury, Nasty

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

  John Deacon

  Princess, Shy, Diana

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• I wouldn't do go to another band.

  John Deacon

  Band

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• 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, Accused

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• Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had
  I've been with you such a long time
  You're my sunshine and I want you to know
  That my feelings are true
  I really love you
  Oh you're my best friend

  John Deacon

  Real, Love You, Sunshine

  Song: You're My Best Friend

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• Live Aid turned our world upside down.

  John Deacon

  Our World, World Upside Down, Aids

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

  John Deacon

  New Day, New Life, Band

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

  John Deacon

  Math, Sides, Students

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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.

  John Deacon

  Song, Writing, Groups

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• 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

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• 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

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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...

  John Deacon

  England, English Music, American Music

  Interview with Jim Ladd, queenarchives.com. 1977.

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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.

  John Deacon

  Light, Dollars, Needs

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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.

  John Deacon

  Beach, Discrimination, Segregation

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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.

  John Deacon

  Old Things, Bass, Firsts

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

  John Deacon

  Children, School, Catholic

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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.

  John Deacon

  Country, Thinking, Albums

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

  John Deacon

  Writing, Majority, Brian

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