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Bill Wyman
British
Musician
About the author
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,
British
Musician
#Chance
#Song
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,
British
Musician
#Songs
#People
#Freedom
#Ideas
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#First
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#People
#First
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
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,
British
Musician
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Music
#Listening
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Want
#Favorite
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Songs
#Choice
#Music
#Kings
I don't make any money.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Money
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,
British
Musician
#Public
#Years
#Old
#Music
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Time
I always got great respect as a bass player.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Respect
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Music
#Project
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,
British
Musician
#Work
#Kings
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,
British
Musician
#Shadows
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,
British
Musician
#Want
#Time
#Play
#Music
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,
British
Musician
#People
#History
#Money
#Music
#Fashion
I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Time
#Years
#Thought
I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#History
#Limits
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Photography
#Hobbies
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,
British
Musician
#Baby
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Love
#Play
#Kings
#Crowds
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Work
#Open
#Photography
#Events
#Museums
#Charity
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
Bill Wyman,
British
Musician
#Man