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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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The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.
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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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I got blisters on my fingers!
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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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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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’d like to end up sort of… unforgettable.
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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'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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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 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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You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
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Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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Last night I had a peace dream.
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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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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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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America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.
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Drumming is my middle name.
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Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs, I don’t think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about.
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The only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.