Bill Wyman Quotes

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.

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.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

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.

I don't make any money.

I have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.

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.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

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.

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.

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.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

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.

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.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

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

I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.

I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

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.

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

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.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.