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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.

Bill Wyman

I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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Bass Musician Play
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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Done Everything Stones Time
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.
BILL WYMAN

Adulation Shadow Shy
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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Gigs Odd Small Stones
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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Museums Photography Work
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 always got great respect as a bass player.
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Bass Player Respect
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.
BILL WYMAN

Bass Efficiency Lines Play Vocal
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
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.
BILL WYMAN

Kings Rolling Work
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?
BILL WYMAN

Music Radio Years
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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Dig Going Knows Next
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
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
BILL WYMAN

Kings Love Play
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.
BILL WYMAN

Albums Frustrated 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.
BILL WYMAN

Advertising Thirty Twenties

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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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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