I’d like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We’d have a rocky edge.
RINGO STARRI love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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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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That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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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 mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.
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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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I’d like to end up sort ofunforgettable.
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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 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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