You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.
RINGO STARRI’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.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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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 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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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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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I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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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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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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The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.
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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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At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I’ve made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.
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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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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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