The drummer’s always going to be there. They’re the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
RINGO STARRI made all my mistakes playing with people.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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 don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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They said do what you want, because if we don’t like it no one will hear it.
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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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I am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.
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I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.
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I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I’ve never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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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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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’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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I couldn’t put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would’ve stayed with the band.
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I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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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 made all my mistakes playing with people.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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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Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
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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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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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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.
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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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