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. Charlie Watts Read Quote
I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don’t think it’s really done so that you’re supposed to feel, Oh, he’s the most wonderful drummer. I think the whole lot is what’s more enjoyable. Charlie Watts Read Quote
You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn’t it? Charlie Watts Read Quote
When people talk about the ’60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It’s supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I’m not really like that. I’ve never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything. Charlie Watts Read Quote
You’d imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn’t. Charlie Watts Read Quote
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. Charlie Watts Read Quote
The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic. Charlie Watts Read Quote
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. Charlie Watts Read Quote
