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Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

Ringo Starr

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Ringo Starr
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 7
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City of Liverpool
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I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.
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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 couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.
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I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!
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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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I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.
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Drumming is my middle name.
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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 get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.
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Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.
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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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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
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Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm 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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I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.
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You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.
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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 am, I definitely am. I'm really excited about that.
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I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
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