Keith Richards famously admired drummer and bandmate Charlie Watts.
The guitarist told ‘GQ’ in 2008, “There is an incredible chemistry with The Stones. I don’t want to analyze it.”
He added, “To me, Charlie Watts is the foundation of it all because that’s what I work off of, and we’ve been doing it all our lives.”
Richards also said, “Rolling Stones founder Ian Stewart—I must give my man Ian, and I think Charlie would agree, on a good day—it’s Ian Stewart’s band. We’re just keeping it together for him. It was his vision. It all comes from purity, you know, which sounds really weird coming from me, right?”