People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
RINGO STARRThe drummer’s always going to be there. They’re the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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 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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My soul is that of a drummer. I didn’t do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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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 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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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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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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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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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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I’m not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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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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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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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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 love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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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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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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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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Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs. I don’t think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about
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