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John Deacon

"That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while."

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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."

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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

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"After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna."

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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

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"There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you."

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"All gut strings. That's just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, it's the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it."

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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."

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"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s."

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"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."

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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."
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"Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together."
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"Arguments are healthy. They clear the air."
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"Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know."
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"Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know."
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"No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do."
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