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 WYMANI 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.
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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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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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 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’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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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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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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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 don’t make any money.
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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.
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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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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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