Ringo Starr Quotes
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Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.
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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
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I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.
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When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.
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I hate click tracks. A lot of people I know like to use click tracks. Like my son is perfect on the click tracks. It makes me to edgy.
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The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.
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I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.
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I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.
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I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude...
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If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.
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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan... and I keep fit and keep moving... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry.
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We the band had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play...
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
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I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
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I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.
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If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
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I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.
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Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
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Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love.' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.