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 love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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They said do what you want, because if we don’t like it no one will hear it.
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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’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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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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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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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 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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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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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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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’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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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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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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I am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.
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Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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I am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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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 used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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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That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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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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