Charlie Watts, about jazz, rock’n’roll and the Stones (2000): “With the jazz, it’s great being onstage with such wonderful players, and with the Stones, it’s great being up there with your friends. […]
Charlie Watts about The Rolling Stones (1981): “I love this band, but it doesn’t mean everything to me. I always think this band is going to fold up all the time – […]
Charlie Watts on his early days in the Stones:“While they were all going on about John Lee Hooker and all these other marvelous people like Muddy Waters, I’d be putting Charlie Parker […]
Charlie Watts on Otis Redding (2013):“When you’d see Otis Redding, that band live, those tempos.… He was entertaining, doing it all, but he could stop during a sax solo or something. That […]
Charlie receives Gold Award at the Jazz FM Awards, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, Apr. 25 2017 *Click for MORE STONES ON VIDEO From the Jazz FM Awards page:The Rolling Stones, Laura Mvula, Damien […]
Charlie Watts about jazz musicians (2013):“I’m not Buddy Rich, I’ve never been a jazz musician that’s in a book that you ring up to do a gig. That would worry the life […]
An interview with Charlie Watts at his home, The Old Brewery House, Lewes, England, May or June 1966 *Click for MORE STONES ON VIDEO
Charlie Watts on fame:“Fame and glamour should not be your motives. Do things because you genuinely love them. In the end, what matters is if you are genuinely passionate about it.” *Click […]
Charlie Watts, on 50 years of The Rolling Stones (2012):“The anniversary starts next month but it goes into next year because Bill Wyman and I joined on January 2, 1963 (sic), I […]
Charlie Watts about hitting the road (2003): “My wife is at home. So when I get home, mentally I’m still on the road, but I’m actually straight back into being there, with […]
