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.
RINGO STARRI’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.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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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Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.
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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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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 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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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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 was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
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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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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 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 said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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