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I don't make any money.
Bill Wyman / Musician
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I'm not a musician, I just play bass.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Bass
Musician
Play
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Firsts
Records
Les
Owned
Paul
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Respect
Bass
Bass Players
Great Respect
Player
Respect Great Always
Bass Player
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Time
Done
Stones
Time Done Everything
In-Between
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I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Music
Listening
Long
Rocks
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Knows
Next
Your Never Know
Dig
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I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Kings
Love
Crowds
Play
Rhythm
Smaller
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I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Roman
Sites
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Archeology
Hobbies
Interesting
Photography
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Men
My Own
Stones
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I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Work
Charity
Charity Work
Museums
Photography
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Gigs
Odd
Stones
Gig
Smaller
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I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Limits
Musical
Restrictions
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The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Dizzy
Firsts
Heard
People
Records
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I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Music
Different
Projects
Project
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I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Band
Club
Large
Stadium
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I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Time
Moving
Stones
Years
Move On
Wonderful Time
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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 / Musician
Girl
Baby
House
Castle
Little Baby
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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
Bill Wyman / Musician
Funny
Dumb
Embarrassing
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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.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Kings
Music
Arranging
Choices
Rhythm
Song
Involve
Producing
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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?
Bill Wyman / Musician
Music
Radio
Years
Young
Music Anything Never
Apart
Hits
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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 / Musician
Forte
Persons
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There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Musician
Proud
Thinking
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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.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Adulation
Audience
Shadow
Shy
Front
Shadows
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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.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Book
Giving
Research
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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.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Boards
Sound
Use
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I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Kings
Work
Done
Rhythm
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Work I Am Always
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You could put Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley on one side of the stage, and James Brown on the other, and you wouldn't even notice the others were there!
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Culture
Littles
Sides
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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.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Arrangements
Competent
Ideas
Musician
People
Song
Stones
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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.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Advertising
Thirty
Twenties
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I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Music
Play
Position
Stones
Stuck
Want
Time Music Me
Anymore
Restricted
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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 / Musician
Access
Fashion
People
Revive
Young
Earn
Few People
Unless
Young People
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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 / Musician
Bass
Lines
Play
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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.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Albums
Frustrated
Ringo
Song
Stones
Chance Always Where
Album
Contribute
George
Led
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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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.
Bill Wyman / Musician
Boards
Player
Sound
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