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. - Charlie Watts

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

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

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

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

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible. - Charlie Watts

Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken. - Charlie Watts

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

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