Bill Wyman Quotes
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
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Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
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I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated on the vocals, I'd mess up the bass, and if I concentrated on the bass, I'd forget the lines.
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Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
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I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
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I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
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It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
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If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.
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You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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I don't make any money.
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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
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I'm not a musician, I just play bass.