Bill Wyman Quotes

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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• Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

  

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• I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.

  

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• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

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• I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.

  

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• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

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• In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.

  

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• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

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• Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

  

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• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

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• Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.

  

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• I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

  

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• Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.

  

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• I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.

  

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• As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.

  

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• I think the government must recognise that the wounds of conflict are even more grievous on the mind than the body, and indeed may even serve to fuel further conflict. Where conflict cannot be avoided, provision of adequate psychosocial services to prevent the adverse mental health consequences should take priority.

  

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• We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.

  

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• Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

  

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• In TV films, it's nice to get out of town for six weeks or two months, whatever it is, do your thing, and you're out, ready for the next assignment.

  

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• The Tonys are the once-a-year shot for all of these shows and artists who work so diligently every single performance but only for a thousand or so people at a time. This gives them the opportunity to perform to millions of people.

  

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• I have never in my life met a man like him for noble simplicity, and boundless truthfulness. I understood from the way he talked that anyone who chose could deceive him, and that he would forgive anyone afterwards who had deceived him, and that was why I grew to love him.

  

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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?

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
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