Charlie Watts Quotes

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Years
  • Will
  • Guilt

• My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Comfortable

• I get along very well with animals and children. I dig them, I get them.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Very

• I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

  

  Wale
  • Mind
  • Speak
  • Loved

• The first information I consume in the morning is probably 'The New York Times' and then my Twitter feed. I think Twitter is a really fascinating, easy way to stay on top of what stories are out there.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Morning
  • Easy
  • New York

• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Live
  • Moon
  • Week

• I never felt like I had a mother.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Never

• I loved experiencing city life in New York.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Life
  • City
  • New York

• I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • You
  • Eyes
  • See

• I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Television
  • News
  • Survive

• I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • World
  • Dream
  • Thought

• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Down
  • Direction
  • Plan

• When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Goal
  • Defeat
  • Sail

• I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Year
  • More

• Some players are quite homely, and they don't see themselves going abroad; others would relish the challenge. I can only speak personally, but I always wanted the challenge, and to go and live in a place like Barcelona was great.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Great
  • Live
  • Challenge

• That's really what was wonderful for me growing up, since I got to know so many of the songwriters who liked me and thought I had talent. They would then tell me how to read a lyric and sing a song, and challenge me to try and find a different end to a song.

  

  Margaret Whiting
  • Up
  • Different
  • Song

• I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.

  

  Corin Nemec
  • Good
  • Great
  • Important

• There is something more profound than just real estate because the decline of retail is social. People don't go in small stores - that is a change that is happening in the consumer culture.

  

  Emi Fontana
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Profound

• It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

  

  Charlie Watts The Rolling Stones
  • Challenge