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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I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
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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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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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I don’t make any money.
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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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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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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
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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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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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