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Charlie Watts's Profile

Brief about Charlie Watts: By info that we know Charlie Watts was born at 1941-06-02. And also Charlie Watts is British Musician.

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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.

Tags: Love, Playing, Wanted

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.

Tags: Engineers, Good, Real

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

Tags: Hate, Home, Love

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

Tags: Rock, Roll, Taken

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

Tags: Bloody, Crap, Load

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.

Tags: Change, Place, Room

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.

Tags: Love, Reason, Whatever

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

Tags: Hell, Played, Playing

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

Tags: Records, Try, Used

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

Tags: Awful, Drink, Honest

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.

Tags: Challenge, Enjoy, Playing

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

Tags: Able, Almost, Impossible

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

Tags: Actually, Kid, Learned

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

Tags: Jazz, Technique

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

Tags: Happiest, Imagine, Times

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.

Tags: Hear, Recording, Thought

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.

Tags: Away, Him, Rich

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.

Tags: Playing, Song, Time

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.

Tags: Beautiful, Else, Whole

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.

Tags: Done, Enjoy, Wonderful
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