John Deacon Quotes

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is filled with benefit shows for every imaginable cause. Musicians like to give back.

My goal is to work diligently to become the top philanthropist in the world.

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

As long as God lets me live, I want to do things that make a difference in the world besides play music.

U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.

The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.

I know I could make a difference by supporting the right causes.

I have failed a lot in my philanthropy, where I will make philanthropic contributions and they just won't be effective.

The big thing that Moneypenny changed was the amount of charity work that I was able to be involved with.

But for those who really want to make the world a better place, can we start looking at Bill Gates's path instead of Steve Jobs? I like my iPad, but Gates is one of the greatest heroes of our time. For me, that has nothing to do with Microsoft and everything to do with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In the charitable world, I find myself giving to large projects that I think can make a large-scale impact.

The greatest impact of 'We Are the World' seems to have been the video, which lets us see the singers take their turns at the microphone without any sense of star ego.

I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

Cinema is a mirror that can change the world.

When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we'd have $22 million for cancer research, and I don't care, man, there's no reason that isn't possible. No reason!

I think that with the success of the team, more people realize that Blackhawks charities exist.

A lot of other wealthy people feel the responsibility to take some of the wealth they've been given and give back: to give a lot of money to a particular cancer charity or to a group researching some particular disease or their alma mater. We haven't really found anything like that with Trump.

The Beatles are great for everybody - they write the songs that made the whole world sing.

Pence is a fan of fundraising and does enjoy doing it.

Peyton Manning donated, I think, $10 million to start a children's hospital here in Indianapolis. Whenever you see something like that, you go, 'Okay, not only can I be great on the football field, I can also be great off of the field.'

I am a huge supporter of the Waxman foundation.