Quotes by Bill Wyman

About Bill Wyman:

William George Perks is an English musician, record producer, songwriter and singer best known as the bassist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1993. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings. He has worked producing both records and film, and has scored music for film in movies and television.
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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

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

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

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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

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Bill Wyman

I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings.

Bill Wyman

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

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

Bill Wyman

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

Bill Wyman

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

Bill Wyman

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Bill Wyman

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

Bill Wyman

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

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I don't make any money.

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Author Bio

  • NameBill Wyman
  • DescriptionBritish rock musician, former member of The Rolling Stones
  • BornOctober 24, 1936
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionAnthropologist; Archaeologist; Guitarist