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Charlie Watts

"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."

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"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."

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Charlie Watts
"You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?"

Jazz

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Charlie Watts
"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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Charlie Watts
"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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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
"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
"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."

Work

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Charlie Watts
"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."

Love

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Charlie Watts
"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."

Thought

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Charlie Watts
"I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played."

Hell

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Charlie Watts
"I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once."

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Aberjhani

"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel."

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Aberjhani

"Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back."

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Aberjhani

"He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that."

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Aberjhani

"I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state."

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Aberjhani

"I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant."

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Aberjhani

"I think the Clintons are brilliant. I've never met a person as intelligent as Bill, and I think Hillary is right up there with him. They're too smart for Washington."

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Aberjhani

"You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious."

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Aberjhani

"So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it."

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Aberjhani

"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."

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Aberjhani

"Stand, you've been sitting much too long, there's a permanent crease in your right or wrong."

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