If you could play, I’d play with you all night. But if I’m just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
RINGO STARRI’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.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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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 learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you’re so ill.
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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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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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That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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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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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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Beatles, women and children first!
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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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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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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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I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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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 am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.
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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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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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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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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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