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I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'

Ringo Starr

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Ringo Starr
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 7
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Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.
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I don't like talking. It's how I'm built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don't mind talking or smiling, it's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth.
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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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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 don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.
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I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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.
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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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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 talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.
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I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.
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Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.
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In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together...more and more realizing that's what I do.
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