I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
BILL WYMANI’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.
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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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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Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.
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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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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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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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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 love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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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 have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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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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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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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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