Bill Wyman Quotes
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 ?
I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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.
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 have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.
I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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 love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
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.
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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.
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.
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
I always got great respect as a bass player.
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 have found two Roman sites in the area that I live in.
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
I don`t make any money.
I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.
I was listening to music long before rock `n roll.
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
