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

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.
Charlie Watts

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

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

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

You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't.
Charlie Watts