Ringo Starr Quotes
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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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It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.
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The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.
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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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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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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 play weird. I'm always just behind. We drummers only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
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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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I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.
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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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I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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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 don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.
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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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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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I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.
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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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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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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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First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them... My soul is that of a drummer... It came to where I had to make a decision - I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.
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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.
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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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If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.