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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.

Bill Wyman

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
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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Gigs Odd Small Stones
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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Drums Belong Forte Persons Upfront
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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Hobbies Interesting Photography
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
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
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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Fashion Few People Person Young
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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Adulation Shadow Shy
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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Celebrity Famous Firsts Person Records
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 always got great respect as a bass player.
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Bass Player Respect
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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Kings Rolling Work
I don’t make any money.
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Any Business Make Money
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
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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Music Radio Years

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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