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.
You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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?
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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.
We usually do things a bit more jazzy.
We don't sell so many records. When I make the album, I pay the musicians.
We courted adversity, took risks, and drove mothers crazy.
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.
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.
There are a lot of songs that I absolutely love what I did.
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.
The Stones introduced all these young people to the blues music, and I'm doing the same thing.
The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
The last ten years have been the best of my life.
The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
So I was releasing this tension with my solo albums, but I didn't want to play music just for money.
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.
Our record was at 98 in the charts when we went so no-one knew us, so people just didn't come to our shows - we'd be in a 10,000 stadium and there'd be 300 people there.