You never know what your next dig is going to find.
BILL WYMANIf 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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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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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 love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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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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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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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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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?
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All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.
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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 don’t make any money.
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I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
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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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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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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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