John Deacon Quotes

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.

When I'm not on the road I'm in the studio every day.

I basically make my living writing songs, so I've been able to go around in my trailer. If I got tired of a place, I could move on and roam around. It's a nice environment for writing songs, as opposed to sitting at a recording studio console all day.

My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.

There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.

I love to be in the studio. That's what I like to do best.

I just love being in the studio, and that's kind of what I do when I'm not on the road. I'm just in the studio messing with stuff, and I love playing all the instruments.

The touring life wasn't for me. I like to wake up in the same place most days. And I'm really into sitting behind a mixing console and listening to music all night and making music all night. I'm a studio rat.

We're always in the studio pretty much, either at home or on the road, trying to come up with new ideas and stuff.

I can't travel every weekend. I like to spend some weekends at my studio.

If I'm not at the studio, I'm at home.

It was quite nice having a routine, going to the studio every day and finishing off 'Wild World'.

I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

I kind of strive for being able to go home and having a totally separate life.

My autobiography would be 'Loves music, loves art, works hard, writes music, tours the world, makes records.'

I've never had that boring office job. All my jobs were music related.

I go to the studio every night.

Normally doing an album you go from track to track and go, 'Let's not work on this one today, let's go work on the other one,' and I think you tend to get more self-indulgent that way.

I'm always working and recording. It's just what makes me happy.

In 1997, I thought I'd never make another record.

I write new lyrics as I'm traveling and I like to record in the place where I had the original idea. Sometimes I rerecord when I get back to Barcelona because I have more-power studio there.

I'll stay in the studio for 12 hours at a time, just producing music and making records. It doesn't feel like 'Oh man I've got a job to do.' It's more like 'Oh man I didn't even realize I've been there this long.'

We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.

After leaving Queen, I decided to stop doing those mega-four-month tours. I go out for a month, and my dog recognizes me when I come home.