Charlie Watts Quotes

• 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

  Light, Play, Glitter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Charlie Watts

  Taken, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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

  Charlie Watts

  Hate, Home, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Charlie Watts

  Years, Challenges, Snares

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• I never weigh myself. But if I put my trousers on and they don't do up, then I don't eat until I can.

  Charlie Watts

  Trousers, Ifs, I Can

  "Charlie Watts's Guide to Dressing Like a Gentleman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. June 29, 2012.

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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 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

  Sex, Thinking, Rocks

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

  Charlie Watts

  People, World, Bloody

  "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.

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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.

  Charlie Watts

  Kids, Play, People

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• I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

  Charlie Watts

  Way, Hell, Charlie

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• I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question.

  Charlie Watts

  Business, Fall, Dollars

  "The Rolling Stones: Notes from the Babylon Bar". Interview with Chris Heath, www.rollingstone.com. December 23, 1997.

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• I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don't really like going to photo shoots. I don't like stylists.

  Charlie Watts

  Dresses, Stylist, Embarrassed

  "Charlie Watts's Guide to Dressing Like a Gentleman". Interview with Mary Kaye Schilling, www.gq.com. June 29, 2012.

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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.

  Charlie Watts

  Play, Trying, Records

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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.

  Charlie Watts

  Change, Use, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Charlie Watts

  Change, Thinking, People

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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.

  Charlie Watts

  Thinking, Watches, Done

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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.

  Charlie Watts

  Mean, Years, People

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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.

  Charlie Watts

  Night, Eight, Play

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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?

  Charlie Watts

  Play, Technique, Needs

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

  Charlie Watts

  Play, Able, Als

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• 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

  Honest, Rich, Solo

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