Charlie Watts Quotes
I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.
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Lost in Space brings back a lot of memories for people, and I think that any time you're involved in something that has such a long-lasting appeal, you feel very blessed by that.
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I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
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One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife.
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Put me somewhere, tell me what to do, and I can get it done.
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I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.
