I don’t make any money.
BILL WYMANI’m not a musician, I just play bass.
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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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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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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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 had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
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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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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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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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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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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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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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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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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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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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