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.
RINGO STARRMy 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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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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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 was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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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’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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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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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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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’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.
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