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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.

Bill Wyman

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
BILL WYMAN

Hobbies Interesting Photography
I always got great respect as a bass player.
BILL WYMAN

Bass Player Respect
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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Dig Going Knows Next
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.
BILL WYMAN

Book Giving Research
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
BILL WYMAN

Men My Own Stones
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
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
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
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 had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
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Moving Time Years
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.
BILL WYMAN

Bass Efficiency Lines Play Vocal
I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
BILL WYMAN

Bass Musician Play
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
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
BILL WYMAN

Celebrity Famous Firsts Person Records
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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Gigs Odd Small Stones
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
BILL WYMAN

Kings Love Play

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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