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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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"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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"What is without periods of rest will not endure."

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"In the biggest and the smallest I sleep but at the same place I stay."

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"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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"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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"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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"I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played."
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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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"The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic."
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"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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"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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