Ringo Starr Quotes

We the band had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play...

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• I'm not coming back to play.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Play
  • Back
  • Coming

• The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Think

• My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Music
  • Home
  • Man

• I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Play
  • Like
  • Movies

• I've always refused to play terrorists.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Play
  • Always
  • Refused

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Myself

• I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Play
  • Like
  • Last

• The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • Time
  • Play
  • Wanted

• I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play the fiddle. From the minute I took it up, I just couldn't put it down.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Play

• I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Play
  • Dangerous
  • Boyfriend

• Steven Adler and I played football in the street when we were 12. I remember rehearsing in my bedroom with my first band, and some kid climbed over the fence of my backyard and peeked his head in the window to see who was rocking. It was Slash.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Remember
  • Band
  • Football

• We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Play
  • Plan

• I want to play more festivals.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Want
  • Play
  • Festivals

• The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Live
  • Song
  • Culture

• I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly don't have any routine. Usually the only time I practice is when the band gets together. Hendrix has always been one of my favorite players, but I was a sucker for Nugent in the late 1970's.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Band

• I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Love
  • Play
  • Summer

• As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Time
  • Band
  • Air

• Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

  

  Kabir
  • Game
  • Play
  • Games

• When they used to come to Tottenham we'd play Who's Gonna Drive You Home? Just to wind them up.

  

  Chris Waddle
  • Home
  • Play
  • Drive

• This truly is the God of lesser glory, because of his lesser knowledge, lesser wisdom, lesser discernment, lesser ability, lesser reliability, and lesser guidance.

  

  Bruce A. Ware
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• I do select a soundtrack for each of my subjects and again my assistants you know they make fun of me because that is more important to me than the lighting, which I just do in a minute right before, but I spend a long time on the soundtracks.

  

  Carol Friedman
  • Fun
  • Subjects
  • Select

• The girls, like, in we'll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Work
  • Business
  • Today

• We the band had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play...

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Play
  • Band
  • Open Door