When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
RINGO STARRMy occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can’t, never have been able to.
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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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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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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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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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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’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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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 hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
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I’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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