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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

Bill Wyman

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
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 don’t make any money.
BILL WYMAN

Any Business Make Money
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
BILL WYMAN

Men My Own Stones
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
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
BILL WYMAN

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

Hobbies Interesting Photography
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.
BILL WYMAN

Ideas People Song
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
BILL WYMAN

Dig Going Knows Next
I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
BILL WYMAN

Baby Girl House
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 open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
BILL WYMAN

Museums Photography Work
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
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
BILL WYMAN

Done Everything Stones Time
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
BILL WYMAN

Kings Love Play

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