I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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.
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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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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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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.
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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 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 have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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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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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 don’t make any money.
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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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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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