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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Bill Wyman

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 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
I always got great respect as a bass player.
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Bass Player Respect
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 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
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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Dig Going Knows Next
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
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
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
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 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
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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Celebrity Famous Firsts Person Records
I don’t make any money.
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Any Business Make Money
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
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
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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Gigs Odd Small Stones

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

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