"I wanted to play drums because I fell……" — Charlie Watts
"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."
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26 Quotes by Charlie Watts
Charlie Watts has 26 quotes on this site.
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Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken.
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The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.
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I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.
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Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years.…
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I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and…
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I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly…
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I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.
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We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like…
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It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I…
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I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
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You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing,…
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When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and…
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More Adulation Quotes
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I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is…
— J. William Fulbright
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It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching…
— Vincenzo Galilei
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a…
— Fawn M. Brodie
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In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
— Ian Peebles
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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in…
— Lord Byron
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of…
— William James
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Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President…
— George Will
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I wanted to be seen as a good person, and never wanted to let people down, but I found it…
— Greg LeMond
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The only players that are having fun are those having a good year, feasting on pitching or blowing down hitters…
— Dave Winfield
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If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the…
— Robert Montgomery
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