You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.
RINGO STARRI like Beethoven, especially the poems.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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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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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’m not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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 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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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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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 don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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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I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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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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I am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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