"When we got Charlie, that really made it for us," he once said about Watts' decision to join the Stones (per Rolling Stone). You'd find out that Charlie Watts is the Stones." This was far from the only time Richards expressed his view about Watts as the band's single most important member. "If Charlie wasn't doing what he's doing on drums, that wouldn't be true at all. "Everybody thinks Mick and Keith are the Rolling Stones," the guitarist said in 1979. "You've got Washington in '67 and then you've got Washington a couple of years ago, and they're kind of the same." "What's nice about it is, it's visual, and it just goes on and on, and you think, 'Is this ever gonna end?'" he said. Though Watts was quick to admit that this hobby isn't exactly topping the list of exciting rock star activities, he insinuated that he both appreciated and dreaded its repetitive nature. So I have all these hotel rooms recorded." I used to take a lot of things that keep you awake, and I'd have nothing to do. ![]() ![]() "I've drawn every bed I've slept in on tour since 1967. According to Rolling Stone, the drummer kept his sketching skills sharp in a rather peculiar manner. "I keep a diary of drawings," he said in 1996. Thanks to his background as a graphic designer (via the New Yorker), Watts could draw quite well, and in 1961 he even wrote and illustrated a children's book inspired by jazz legend Charlie Parker, "Ode to a Highflying Bird" (via Rolling Stones Data).
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