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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

Bill Wyman

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
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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Museums Photography Work
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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Done Everything Stones Time
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
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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Dig Going Knows Next
I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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Bass Musician Play
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
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’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
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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Kings Music Song
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
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
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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Boards Sound Use
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 love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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Kings Love Play
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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Gigs Odd Small Stones

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

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