I’d like to end up sort ofunforgettable.
RINGO STARRI’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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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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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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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 warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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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 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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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 never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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I don’t like talking. It’s how I’m built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don’t mind talking or smiling, it’s just I don’t do it very much. I haven’t got a smiling face or a talking mouth.
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Ringo: ‘I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
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I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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I’d like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We’d have a rocky edge.
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I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I’m trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.
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People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
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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.
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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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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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If you could play, I’d play with you all night. But if I’m just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
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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 learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you’re so ill.
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I am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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The drummer’s always going to be there. They’re the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
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The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.
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I feel the older I get, the more I’m learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it’s all about finding yourself.
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