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Charlie Watts

"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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"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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"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."

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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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Charlie Watts
"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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"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."

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

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