"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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"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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"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."

Change

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

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

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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."

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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."

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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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"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 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."

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"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."

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