I don’t make any money.
BILL WYMANI open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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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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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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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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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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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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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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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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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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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’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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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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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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