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 STARRThe trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.
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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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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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’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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The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
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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.
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I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
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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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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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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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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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