The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
RINGO STARRI’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’
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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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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Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke – Go and have a look in my bedroom, It’s covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.
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I’m not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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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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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 love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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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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Beatles, women and children first!
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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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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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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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