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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

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 open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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Museums Photography Work
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 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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Baby Girl House
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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Boards Sound Use
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
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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Dig Going Knows Next
I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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Bass Musician Play
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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Gigs Odd Small Stones
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
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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Done Everything Stones Time
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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Book Giving Research
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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Adulation Shadow Shy
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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Albums Frustrated Song
I always got great respect as a bass player.
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Bass Player Respect
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

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