I always got great respect as a bass player.
BILL WYMANAll 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.
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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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 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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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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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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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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When I record in a studio I don’t use an amp. I go directly into the board, so I can get that very fat, full sound – which is my favorite sound.
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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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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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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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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 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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