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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.

Bill Wyman

I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
BILL WYMAN

Bass Musician Play
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 open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
BILL WYMAN

Museums Photography Work
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
BILL WYMAN

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.
BILL WYMAN

Fashion Few People Person Young
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
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
BILL WYMAN

Kings Music Song
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?
BILL WYMAN

Music Radio Years
It’s all right leaping about the stage when you’re 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
BILL WYMAN

Dumb Embarrassing Funny
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.
BILL WYMAN

Albums Frustrated Song
I always got great respect as a bass player.
BILL WYMAN

Bass Player Respect
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.
BILL WYMAN

Advertising Thirty Twenties
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.
BILL WYMAN

Adulation Shadow Shy
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

Drums Belong Forte Persons Upfront
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
BILL WYMAN

Celebrity Famous Firsts Person Records
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
BILL WYMAN

Hobbies Interesting Photography

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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