So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
RINGO STARROf course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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I’d like to end up sort ofunforgettable.
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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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I never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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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’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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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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People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
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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 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 love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.
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I’m not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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 mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.
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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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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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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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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’m on my feet and I’m doing what I love to do, and I’m in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
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I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I’m trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.
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That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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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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