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 STARRI’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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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 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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Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.
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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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 made all my mistakes playing with people.
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I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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I am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.
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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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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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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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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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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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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.
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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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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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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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 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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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.
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