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

• Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Ball
  • Good Time
  • Don't Stop

• 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

• Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

  

  Ray Manzarek The Doors
  • Poet
  • Foremost
  • Jim

• 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

• Now, the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else, I don't have anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Smart
  • Gun
  • Silly

• 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

• Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

  

  Melissa Bean
  • Identity
  • Crime
  • Nations

• When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Music
  • Soul
  • 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

• My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Bands

• 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