John Deacon Quotes

There's not a lot of thinking that I need to do away from the studio on Broken Bells stuff.

I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

For me, making music just starts with a simple melody, and lyrics will come sometime after that.

I am really heavy into songwriting.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

If you're thinking the road ahead is a little shorter than the one behind you, you're thinking about trying to write a good song and hoping to make a decent record of it.

I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of good songwriters, and I try to actually work on the craft of writing a song rather than just leaving it up to inspiration.

When you make a record, you get to live in an imaginary world where you have the best kind of band on every song.

The songs will come as they come, and I'm excited because I haven't gotten to be really creative in a while. I'm excited to get back and do what I do and just write a song.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

I would probably work with Drake as he is massively inspirational to me as a writer as well as an artist. If not him, then Susan Boyle!

I think my favorite thing is songwriting.

I'd love to collaborate and write a song with Will Gallagher from Oasis. I think he's a great songwriter.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. I'm still very excited by an amazingly written song, so that's really the thing that I work on when I make records with people.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.