Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts was a man of few words … very few but often his quotes were biting.
Here are 10 of his best:
You’d imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn’t.
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
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.
Chuck Berry’s studio band – there isn’t a better rock’n’roll band. That’s where we got it from. “Roll Over Beethoven” by everybody else is a joke.
“I didn’t know what the hell Charlie Parker played…I just liked the way he played it.”
Rock And Roll Has Probably Given More Than It’s Taken.
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I’d love to go home every night.
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.
In the mid-60s the tours would be a trip around England, then a trip around America, recording in America, back to Europe, England to America. You were living together the whole time, and we used to get a month off, at the most. You were younger, though. And also you were more photogenic, to be honest. I don’t think Keith would want you photographing him at two in the morning now.
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