British - Musician | June 2, 1941 -
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
Charlie Watts
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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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Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
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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 it's an awful drink, to be honest with you.
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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 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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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 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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To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
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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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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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