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I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

Bill Wyman

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
BILL WYMAN

Baby Girl House
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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Fashion Few People Person Young
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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Hobbies Interesting Photography
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 open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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Museums Photography Work
I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
BILL WYMAN

Moving Time Years
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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Music Radio Years
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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Drums Belong Forte Persons Upfront
I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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Bass Musician Play
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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Men My Own Stones
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.
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Advertising Thirty Twenties
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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Kings Rolling Work
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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Ideas People Song
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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Bass Efficiency Lines Play Vocal
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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Boards Player Sound

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