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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.

Ringo Starr

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
So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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Country Mindset
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
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
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
I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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Body Bone Life Myself
Everything government touches turns to crap.
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Crap Government Touch
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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Easy Known Pay Respect Sing Yourself
People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
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Far Move People Yourself
I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.
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Different Myself Ring
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
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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Deal Stand Yourself
We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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Live Thinking
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
Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.
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Death Pretend Wake Up Yourself
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
I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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Love Music Yourself
I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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Love Myself
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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Ability Best Deal Greatness
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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Expand Goodness Music Play Soul
I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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Feeling Goodness Myself Space
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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Creation Myself
Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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Act Follow
Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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Ambition Day Sleep Wrong Yourself
I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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Message Myself
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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Boy Known Myself
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

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