Bill Wyman Quotes

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.

Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones

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• Boxing is all about how cool and controlled and clear your mind is. Violence only gets in the way of you winning a fight. It's a sport that's more about the strategy than anything. You lose or you win in your head.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Mind
  • Cool
  • Violence

• Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Look

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Day
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• Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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  • Brand

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• The great love of my life is music.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Darkness

• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
  • World
  • Feel

• You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Feel

• The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Teach
  • Opinions
  • Conformity

• On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • History
  • Age

• I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear.

  

  Faith Ford
  • Love
  • Mom
  • Playing

• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Organs

• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Action
  • Me
  • Sin

• I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Why
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• The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

  

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• I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.

  

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  • Inspired
  • Stuff
  • Because

• I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle.

  

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  • People
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• As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

  

  Terry Bradshaw
  • Player
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• It's time to do something different. Mind you, I'm grateful to have my career with The B-52s, but it's nice to have fun and play with my voice.

  

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  • Career
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• For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.

  

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  • Weight
  • Bed
  • I Feel Like

• It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.

  

  Kris Kristofferson

• 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.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Player
  • Bass
  • Boards