John Deacon Quotes

I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

With everything I do, I'm 100 percent involved. I don't really let anyone just take over and hear what's going to go on. I like to have full creative control, pretty much, and really be involved with everything.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I just think that any person who wants music to be their career shouldn't focus on a record label. I have seen friends who sign to a label too early in their career, and they lost control over their music, and their releases were delayed or never put out.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I don't believe that an animation studio should be an executive-driven studio.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.

I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

I've never let producers tell me what to do. Even when I was making television, I always did what I wanted to do, and if I couldn't, I didn't do it. It was a freedom that, these days, young directors starting out don't have.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something.

There are a lot of global decisions that you can make as a co-publisher, and only publishers can make those kind of decisions. At the same time, there are some things you can do only as a penciler or creator. I want to keep my hands in both pots, so to speak.

I enjoy being in control, having a lot of creative control.

I need to find a way of retaining creative control.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I have a freedom that's incredibly valuable. Obviously my freedom is far smaller in scale than people like Zemeckis and Spielberg have here. But it's comparable. I can dream up a project, develop it, make it, control it, release it.

That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I want.' They can always say no, but that's okay.

Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say, 'Hey, man, back off. You hired me to do it. Let me do it.'