Bill Wyman famous quotes

03-24-2025

I always got great respect as a bass player.
-- Bill Wyman

#Respect #Player #Bass
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 #People #Young
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

#Funny #Dumb #Embarrassing
I don't make any money.
-- Bill Wyman

#Money
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
-- Bill Wyman

#Music #Song #Kings
I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.
-- Bill Wyman

#Music #Rocks #Long
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

#Twenties #Advertising #Thirty
I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
-- Bill Wyman

#Photography #Interesting #Hobbies
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

#Thinking #Musician #Proud
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

#Song #Ideas #People
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
-- Bill Wyman

#Next
My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
-- Bill Wyman

#Records #Firsts
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
-- Bill Wyman

#People #Records #Firsts
I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
-- Bill Wyman

#Photography #Museums #Charity
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

#Shadow #Shy #Adulation
Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
-- Bill Wyman

#Done #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

#Years #Radio #Young
I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.
-- Bill Wyman

#Different #Projects
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.
-- Bill Wyman

#Kings #Play #Crowds
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

#Kings #Rolling #Done
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 am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
-- Bill Wyman

#Men #Stones
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

#Play #Want #Stones
I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
-- Bill Wyman

#Moving #Years #Time To Move On
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

#Song #Frustrated #Albums
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

#Girl #Baby #House
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
-- Bill Wyman

#Stones #Gigs #Odd

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