"Mick is probably the best thing live on stage. But they both have a direction for themselves and they can both see whatever it is – I’m fortunate to be in there as part of that." On Mick Jagger One is meticulous and detailed, and the other is a complete bohemian. When I say they argue, they don’t actually, but there’s always a difference of opinion. They always argue, but they always love each other," Watts said in the 1998 book "The Rolling Stones: A Life on the Road. There’s a magic about them that people like. "I’m lucky to have been with these two (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards).
It doesn't matter if it’s blues or whatever. "My thing whenever I play is to make it a dance sound. "I was always brought up under the theory the drummer was an accompanist," he said on the YouTube video titled "If It Ain't Got that Swing." It was being up there playing." On his own drumming "I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. Here are some of his best comments – and a few recollections about Watts from others – from various sources: Charlie Watts on being a drummer
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You think you’ve cracked it, and you are all right, and you go to this little club in New Orleans, and (there's) some guy nobody's heard of except five of his mates who play in the band, and he’s a great little drummer." He expressed frustration at never being as good as the best drummers he watched. "I learned by watching the great drummers in London … and American players when they came over." I should’ve gone to classes," he said in 2008 in a video on the Rolling Stones YouTube channel. I should have gone to school and learned how to do it. "One of the faults in my playing, I never learned to play. Watch Video: Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies in London hospitalĭrummer Charlie Watts, who died Tuesday, may have been the quietest of the Rolling Stones vanguard, but when he did speak, he usually said something interesting.Įven though Stones guitarist Keith Richards said, "Charlie Watts has always been the bed that I lie on musically" in his 2010 memoir, "Life," Watts was always humble about his talent.
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