Ringo Starr Quotes

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

Ringo Starr The Beatles

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• The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Water

• It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Long
  • Done
  • Road

• I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Movie
  • Order

• This is the age of oddities let loose.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Age
  • Loose

• We went to all the local radio stations. We even went all the way down to Detroit, into Windsor.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Detroit
  • Went
  • Radio Station

• I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Optimistic
  • Frustrated
  • Disillusioned

• I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Listen
  • Pop Music
  • Classic Music

• I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Technology
  • Facebooker
  • Grump

• The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • First
  • Heard
  • Began

• After a brain bath was ready to be loved over time and now I think the void is a normal place...

  

  Gustavo Cerati Soda Stereo
  • Loved
  • Void
  • Brain Bath

• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Songs
  • Loved
  • Album

• Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.

  

  David Fontana
  • Reality
  • Moments
  • Expectations

• For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Think
  • Food

• The thing about bands is everybody wants to be the next Oasis, and that doesn't mean slogging it out around the toilet [gigs], it means, "Give me the check, I need to go to the Levis shop and I need a 1960s Gibson."

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Next
  • Wants
  • Bands

• Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I feel like, 'Oh, if they're still around in two years, I'll see what they're up to.'

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Bands
  • Press
  • Ear

• I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Bands
  • Mistakes onstage