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.
RINGO STARRI 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 made all my mistakes playing with people.
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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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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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 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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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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Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.
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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 never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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I’m not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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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I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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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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