Bill Wyman Quotes

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

"I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings."

"Everything had to be done in-between Stones time."

"I always got great respect as a bass player."

"I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography."

"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'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."

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

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

"I don't make any money."

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

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

"I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography."

"I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project."

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

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

"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."