84 Quotes by Bill Wyman

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?

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

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.

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.

We courted adversity, took risks, and drove mothers crazy.

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.

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.

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.

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.