Bill Wyman Quotes (50 Quotes)

It's like a record, when you make a record and you mix it and it sounds good and then it's mastered and you hear the mastering when it's all been heightened and all that and it sounds better still - it's the same thing with a book.

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.

I want to be creative, more adventurous, and that's why I left.

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

The Stones introduced all these young people to the blues music, and I'm doing the same thing.

I wanted a variety in my life but after a couple of years I thought that music is what I do so maybe I should start doing it again.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

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 try to listen to the music channels but you hear stuff where people sing terribly out of tune and they play the wrong notes and chords.

It's also great to work with people I've known for many years.

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

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.

This small tour, playing clubs, where the music is best, and where the music was actually written for is not a way to make money.

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.

I didn't do music for a couple of years I just focused on other things.

I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium.

I can dig in my garden and find stuff that dates back to the 1100's.

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.

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

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.

You can go to art exhibitions, from van Gogh or Leonardo, you can see the whole history of art in museums and exhibitions. You can see the oldest film that was ever made, etc etc, so why not the same with the music industry

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

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

The last ten years have been the best of my life.

People will say that they never heard any of those songs before but back then, no one had heard the obscure songs the Stones were doing.

Everybody in the band does it for the same reasons, as I do, to have a good time and send the crowd home with smiles on their faces.

You never know what your next dig is going to find.

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

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.

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

I resigned myself to this eventuality. After all, it was the musician's name first (he's a lot older than I am, certainly, and perhaps more famous), and . . . But then I remembered. . . . Bill Wyman the Rolling Stone wasn't born Bill Wyman. . . . His real name, Stones fans know, is William George Perks.

I don't make any money.

It would have been the first time the Beatles and Stones collaborated on stage I suppose. We have played together on record in the past.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

When you pick it up you realize that you are the first person to touch that object since someone left it there 800 years ago.

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.

The whole idea behind the band was to play music that we love.

The Stones used to do that a bit. Sometimes we would pull a song that was ten years old out and put it on the album.

We don't sell so many records. When I make the album, I pay the musicians.

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

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.

Our first time in America wasn't a very good tour because they didn't know us because we hadn't had a hit record.

So I was releasing this tension with my solo albums, but I didn't want to play music just for money.

I came away thinking maybe we are not right for America, although I thought we were.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.