I don’t make any money.
BILL WYMANI don’t make any money.
BILL WYMANI always got great respect as a bass player.
BILL WYMANThe Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
BILL WYMANI am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
BILL WYMANEverything had to be done in-between Stones time.
BILL WYMANCompanies 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 WYMANI open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
BILL WYMANIf 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 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 WYMANIt’s all right leaping about the stage when you’re 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
BILL WYMANI live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
BILL WYMANWith the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
BILL WYMANI love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
BILL WYMANI’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.
BILL WYMANI 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 WYMANI 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