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Charlie Watts
British
Musician
About the author
A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Thought
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Love
#Play
#Being
I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Right
I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Time
#Will
#Song
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Love
#Home
#Night
#Hate
I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Play
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Direction
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Love
#Reason
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Right
#Change
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#People
#Change
#Worth
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Years
#Challenge
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#People
#Problems
#Years
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#People
#Play
#Sound
#Illusion
I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Hell
I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Rest
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 sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Talk
#People
#Sex
#Drugs
You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#World
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Play
#Jazz
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#People
#World
Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Play
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#People
#Play
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.
Charlie Watts,
British
Musician
#Time
#Work
#Play
#Night
#Road