If you could play, I’d play with you all night. But if I’m just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
RINGO STARRWe will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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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 made all my mistakes playing with people.
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I’d like to end up sort ofunforgettable.
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I know when I feel good when I play. There’s a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it’s still playing live. For me, it’s what expands my soul.
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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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That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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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 never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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I’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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 don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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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 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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I’m not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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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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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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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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 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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