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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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Akiroq Brost

"I got to play on a couple of records with the Rolling Stones, and that was really special to me."

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Akiroq Brost

"It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself."

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Akiroq Brost

"Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice."

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Akiroq Brost

"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."

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Akiroq Brost

"Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie."

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Akiroq Brost

"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."

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Akiroq Brost

"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."

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Akiroq Brost

"I don't play the tuba."

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Akiroq Brost

"I enjoy tennis, though don't play very often nowadays, and skiing... oh yes and swimming."

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Akiroq Brost

"I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born."

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Charlie Watts
"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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Charlie Watts
"Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic."

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Charlie Watts
"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."

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

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

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Charlie Watts
"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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Charlie Watts
"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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Charlie Watts
"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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