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 WYMANMy first record I owned was by Les Paul.
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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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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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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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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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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When I record in a studio I don’t use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound – which is my favorite sound.
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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 have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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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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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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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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I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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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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