“I love this band, but it doesn’t mean everything to me. I always think this band is going to fold up all the time, I really do. I never thought it would last five minutes, but I figured that I’d live that five minutes to the hilt because I love them. I don’t care if I retire now, but I don’t know what I’d do. If I stopped doing this, I’d go mad.”

Charlie Watts

1941-2021

Rolling Stone

magazine interview

1981

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts died this week. He joined the band in 1963 and remained the “quiet one,” and dressed in Saville Row suits with impressive style and flair for nearly 60 years.