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.
RINGO STARRBeing 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 was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I’ve made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.
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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 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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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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I mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.
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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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People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
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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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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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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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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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