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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.

Bill Wyman

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.
BILL WYMAN

Drums Belong Forte Persons Upfront
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
BILL WYMAN

Celebrity Famous Firsts Person Records
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
BILL WYMAN

Men My Own Stones
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.
BILL WYMAN

Albums Frustrated Song
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.
BILL WYMAN

Adulation Shadow Shy
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
BILL WYMAN

Kings Love Play
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
BILL WYMAN

Gigs Odd Small Stones
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.
BILL WYMAN

Fashion Few People Person Young
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.
BILL WYMAN

Kings Rolling Work
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
BILL WYMAN

Kings Music Song
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
BILL WYMAN

Museums Photography Work
I always got great respect as a bass player.
BILL WYMAN

Bass Player Respect
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

Boards Player Sound
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.
BILL WYMAN

Ideas People Song
I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
BILL WYMAN

Moving Time Years
It’s all right leaping about the stage when you’re 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
BILL WYMAN

Dumb Embarrassing Funny

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