When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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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Beatles, women and children first!
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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 am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.
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I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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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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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
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You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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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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My soul is that of a drummer. I didn’t do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
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Ringo: ‘I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
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