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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

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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Boards Player Sound
I always got great respect as a bass player.
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Bass Player Respect
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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Book Giving Research
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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Men My Own Stones
I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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Bass Musician Play
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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Kings Love Play
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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Baby Girl House
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.
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Albums Frustrated Song
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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Hobbies Interesting Photography
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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Celebrity Famous Firsts Person Records
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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Dumb Embarrassing Funny
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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Advertising Thirty Twenties
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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Dig Going Knows Next
I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
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Moving Time Years
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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Ideas People Song
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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Bass Efficiency Lines Play Vocal

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