 I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played. |
| It doesn't really change, actually. I think The Rolling Stones have gotten a lot better. An awful lot better, I think. A lot of people don't, but I think they have, and to me that's gratifying. It's worth it. |
| 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. |
| I've seen Keith fall asleep at business meetings about millions of dollars for him-because of heroin, just nod out and then wake up and answer a question. |
| People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud. |
| A lot of our tracks have sounded a lot better than I thought they would because of recording, mixing, and because I probably didn't hear it that way. I'm not a songwriter. |
| To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible. |
| The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic. |
| I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them. |
| When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them. |
| Mick's not good on his own problems, but he's very good at other people's. He's been wonderful over the years. I don't mean I ring him up every week, but he's fantastic. |
| I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once. |
| 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. |
| I think it's an awful drink, to be honest with you. |
| For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called. |
| 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. |
| You'd imagine Mick would be the happiest person in the world, and yet a lot of the times he isn't. |
| I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night. |
| You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it? |
| Rock and roll has probably given more than it's taken. |
