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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."

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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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"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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"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."
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"For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called."
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"I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played."
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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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"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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"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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