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 WYMANI 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.
More Bill Wyman Quotes
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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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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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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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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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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With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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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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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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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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I don’t make any money.
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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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