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.
BILL WYMANI’m not a musician, I just play bass.
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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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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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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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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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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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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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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I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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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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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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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 open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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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 am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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