Charlie Watts Quotes

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

I have a very old-fashioned and traditional mode of dress. I get embarrassed, and I don’t really like going to photo shoots. I don’t like stylists.

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.

I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can’t play to them.

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.

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.

When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.

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

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.

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.

Rock and roll has probably given more than it’s taken.

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.