I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
BILL WYMANIt’s all right leaping about the stage when you’re 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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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 always got great respect as a bass player.
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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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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 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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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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I’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.
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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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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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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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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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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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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