Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman
William George Wyman, known professionally as Bill Wyman, 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth24 October 1936
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The last ten years have been the best of my life.
I want to be creative, more adventurous, and that's why I left.
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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.
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We courted adversity, took risks, and drove mothers crazy.
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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.
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Because I had to do everything in bits and pieces, I was never quite satisfied when I finished a solo album or a soundtrack because I knew I could have done them better if I could have focused on them 100% until they were done.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Rolling Stones' recorded legacy is unfortunately similar to that of many other rock stars of the 1960s -- a great burst of creativity that tapers off into a stretch (eventually decades long) of unremarkable (and sometimes downright awful) recorded work.
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The whole idea behind the band was to play music that we love.
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And that's why I opened that restaurant just to get some of it out of my attic, to put up on the walls.
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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.
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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.