Charlie Watts Quotes

• You’d imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn’t.

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• You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn’t it?

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• When people talk about the ’60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It’s supposed to be s*x and drugs and rock and roll and I’m not really like that. I’ve never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

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• When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

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• We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.

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• Usually I can hear the pianos, the saxophone, and usually I can hear Ronnie. But I really need to listen to Keith and Mick. The rest of the band is sort of an embellishment to that.

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• To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

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• The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

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• Rock and roll has probably given more than it’s taken.

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• People say I play real loud. I don’t, actually. I’m recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that’s part of the illusion really. I can’t play loud.

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• Mick’s not good on his own problems, but he’s very good at other people’s. He’s been wonderful over the years. I don’t mean I ring him up every week, but he’s fantastic.

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• It’s been years and years and years I’ve been playing the drums, and they’re still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

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• It doesn’t really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don’t, but I think they have, and to me that’s gratifying. It’s worth it.

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• I’m very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that’s it.

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• I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn’t about adulation. It was being up there playing.

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• I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don’t think it’s really done so that you’re supposed to feel, Oh, he’s the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what’s more enjoyable.

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• I think it’s an awful drink, to be honest with you.

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• I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis’ direction.

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• I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can’t play to them.

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• I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I’d love to go home every night.

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Charlie Watts (25)

Birth:	2nd June, 1941
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Drummer, Graphic Designer

About

Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts was born in Kingsbury, London, England. He is an  English drummer. Originally trained as a graphic artist, he started playing drums in London’s rhythm and blues clubs, where he met Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards. In 1963, he joined their group, the Rolling Stones, as drummer, while doubling as designer of their record-sleeves and tour-stages. In 2006, Watts was elected into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame.

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