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.
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.
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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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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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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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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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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 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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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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I don’t make any money.
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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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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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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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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