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 STARRI never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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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I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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My 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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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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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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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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We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.
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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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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They said do what you want, because if we don’t like it no one will hear it.
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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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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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