Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the bluesAnd you know it don't come easy.
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I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.
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I couldn’t put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would’ve stayed with the band.
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The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.
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I’d like to end up sort of… unforgettable.
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I’m an emotional human being. I’m very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem!
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I got blisters on my fingers!
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When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
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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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Last night I had a peace dream.
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We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write – we all wrote – about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.
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I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
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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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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
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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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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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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America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.