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 STARRSo this is America. They must be out of their minds.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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Ringo: ‘I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
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My soul is that of a drummer. I didn’t do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
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I’m not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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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Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.
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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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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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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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The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
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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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That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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I am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.
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People only look at me as a Beatle but my friends look at me as a whole person. That’s how life works, but it’s not bugging me anymore.
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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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People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
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I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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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’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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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 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 want to deal with what’s in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that’s not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.
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I am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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