I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
RINGO STARRRingo: ‘I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
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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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Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
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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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I mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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 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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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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I am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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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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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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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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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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You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
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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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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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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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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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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’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 don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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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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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