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I know when I feel good when I play. There’s a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it’s still playing live. For me, it’s what expands my soul.

Ringo Starr

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.
RINGO STARR

Hand Myself Nervous Right Stage
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.
RINGO STARR

Feet Love Musician Myself Profession
I’d like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We’d have a rocky edge.
RINGO STARR

Edge Man Myself Value
I mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.
RINGO STARR

Crazy Drive Important Woman
I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.
RINGO STARR

Different Myself Ring
I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
RINGO STARR

Drugs Fans Hope
I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
RINGO STARR

Feeling Goodness Myself Space
People only look at me as a Beatle but my friends look at me as a whole person. That’s how life works, but it’s not bugging me anymore.
RINGO STARR

Friendship Myself People
I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
RINGO STARR

Body Bone Life Myself
They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.
RINGO STARR

Different Myself Paint Religion Sacrifice Thinking
They said do what you want, because if we don’t like it no one will hear it.
RINGO STARR

Freedom Hear Willing
That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
RINGO STARR

Drugs Emotion End
Everything government touches turns to crap.
RINGO STARR

Crap Government Touch
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.
RINGO STARR

Leadership Life Myself
I 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.
RINGO STARR

Band Myself Reason Stay Time
I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
RINGO STARR

Love Myself

I know when I feel good when I play. There’s a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it’s still playing live. For me, it’s what expands my soul.

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I know when I feel good when I play. There’s a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it’s still playing live. For me, it’s what expands my soul.

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