When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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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 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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Beatles, women and children first!
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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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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 never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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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’d like to end up sort ofunforgettable.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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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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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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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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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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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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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That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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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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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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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My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can’t, never have been able to.
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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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