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You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.

Ringo Starr

From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I’m still doing it. I still love it so that’s why I do it.
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Goodness Myself People Play
The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.
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Each Other Love Musician Togetherness
They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.
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Different Myself Paint Religion Sacrifice Thinking
My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can’t, never have been able to.
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Different Myself Occupation Time
I am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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Excitement Myself
People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
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Far Move People Yourself
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I’ve never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
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Drums Human Love Myself Play Practice Room
Peace and love, peace and love!
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Love Peace Positive
That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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Drugs Emotion End
I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you’re so ill.
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Hospital Learning Sick Yourself
I’ve never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I’m here because it happened. But I didn’t do anything to make it happen apart from saying ‘Yes’
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Creation Myself
I never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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Band Mistake Myself Study
Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
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Leadership Life Myself
Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke – Go and have a look in my bedroom, It’s covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.
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Himself Influence Music Sound
I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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Body Bone Life Myself
I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Space

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.

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