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.
RINGO STARRI 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.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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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.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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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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I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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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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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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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 am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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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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