John Deacon Quotes

I constantly tour, even when I don't have a record out.

Usually, when we go out, it's because we made a new studio album, and that becomes the focus of the tour throughout the world for a year or so.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

We never got on a big, big tour, but we did a lot of spot dates.

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it.

I had a blast on tour with Little Big Town. We got to play some beautiful rooms around the country - some really amazing old theaters. And it was just cool to see a band that's been together for so long.

I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

We completed and released 'No Code' in 1996. We began some off and on touring for that release.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

When we were younger and first starting out in Australia, we found that we sold more records by word of mouth because we were playing the bars, clubs, and small places and building a following. And as we got bigger, we still relied a lot on word of mouth.

I don't like people who make records and then don't ever perform. If you are going to make a record it's important you get out there so people can see you if they want to and get to hear you if they want to.

Apart from working on music, I'd rather play big festivals than almost anything else.

My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road.

If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now.

I'm pretty sure that the Walkmen are the band that I've paid to see the most in my life.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

In a way, Jersey really supports rock, maybe more than New York City and Long Island. I know plenty of bands that tour and do much better at Starland or other clubs in New Jersey than others in the tri-state area.

Rock n' roll is a pretty fun job.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.