You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues…And you know it don’t come easy.
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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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Beatles, women and children first!
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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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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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I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I’m trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.
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If you could play, I’d play with you all night. But if I’m just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
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People in Liverpool don’t move very far, you know.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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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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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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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You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
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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 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 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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