You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.
RINGO STARRI was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke – Go and have a look in my bedroom, It’s covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.
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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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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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The drummer’s always going to be there. They’re the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
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I am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.
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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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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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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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The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
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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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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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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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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’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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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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