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 STARRThat’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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 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 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 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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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 was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
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I’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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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 don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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 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 hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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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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