I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.
RINGO STARRI 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.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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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’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 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 learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you’re so ill.
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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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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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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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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 never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
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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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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 don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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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