Art & Creativity Quote by John Deacon

Deacon’s line reads like someone backing away from the tidy myth of “the band” as a sealed unit and instead pointing to music as an environment you can’t step outside of. The stumbles and course-corrections - “No, I mean,” “someway or another,” “and in it” - aren’t verbal clutter; they’re the sound of a musician resisting a clean headline. He’s not pitching destiny. He’s describing a kind of cultural gravity.

The specific intent is pragmatic: to frame involvement in the music business as inevitable, not because of ego or grand ambition, but because the industry is already colonizing their daily life. “Living with it” suggests intimacy and routine; “living in it” shifts to immersion, even entrapment. That small preposition change is the tell: music isn’t just what they do, it’s the air they breathe and the machine they have to navigate.

The subtext is classic Deacon: understated, wary of spectacle. Coming from Queen’s quietest member, it doubles as a gentle corrective to rock-star narratives that center flamboyance and singular genius. He implies a collective “we,” but also opens a door to individual restlessness: “all sorts of things we would like to do.” That’s aspiration beyond the stage - production, business decisions, side projects, control over their work.

Contextually, it fits an era when bands learned that success meant negotiating contracts, touring logistics, publishing rights - the less romantic architecture of pop. Deacon’s sentence locates the band inside that system, not above it, and in doing so it sounds more honest than heroic.