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.
RINGO STARRI feel the older I get, the more I’m learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it’s all about finding yourself.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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I mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.
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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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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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I’m nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I’m due on stage. But I’m all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.
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Peace and love, peace and love!
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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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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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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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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 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’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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 want to deal with what’s in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that’s not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.
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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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I’d like to end up sort ofunforgettable.
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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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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.
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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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I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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I feel the older I get, the more I’m learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it’s all about finding yourself.
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I 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.
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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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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