Ringo Starr Quotes

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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Myself Poem
I mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.
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Crazy Drive Important Woman
Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.
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Death Pretend Wake Up Yourself
When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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Musician Myself
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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Built Day Mindset Myself Play Talk
Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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Act Follow
Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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Happiness Myself Time
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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Myself Situation Thinking Understand
I never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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Band Mistake Myself Study
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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Hand Myself Nervous Right Stage
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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Hospital Learning Sick Yourself
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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Boredom Night Play Pretty Quick
They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.
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Different Myself Paint Religion Sacrifice Thinking
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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Friendship Myself People
You’re like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I’ll get you is to get you in bed.
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Bed Devil Horn Yourself
Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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Rock Soul
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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Different Myself Occupation Time
We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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Live Thinking
You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
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Future Kiss Past Yourself
They said do what you want, because if we don’t like it no one will hear it.
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Freedom Hear Willing
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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Love Myself Object Peace Warning
I am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.
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Gratitude Human Myself True
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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Day End Meditation Mountain Myself
The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
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Ground Leave Trouble Yourself
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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Goodness Myself People Play
So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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Country Mindset
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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Feet Love Musician Myself Profession

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