Ringo Starr Quotes
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I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.
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No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.
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Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play...
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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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I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
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I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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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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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 was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.
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With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.
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I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
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I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.
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I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
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I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
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When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.
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At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.
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Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
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The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
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There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.
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When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
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I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
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When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.