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Ringo Starr Inspirational Quotes (83)

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Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.
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That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.
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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 used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
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I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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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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First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.
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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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I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
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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've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
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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'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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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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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
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I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.
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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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