They said do what you want, because if we don’t like it no one will hear it.
RINGO STARRI couldn’t put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would’ve stayed with the band.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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I am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.
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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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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I’m nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I’m due on stage. But I’m all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.
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The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
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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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Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
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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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I want to deal with what’s in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that’s not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.
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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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I’m on my feet and I’m doing what I love to do, and I’m in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
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I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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