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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
Ringo Starr
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Ringo Starr
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 7
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Richard Starkey
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Ritchie Starkey
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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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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 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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I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
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Drumming is my middle name.
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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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I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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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Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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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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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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Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.
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I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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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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Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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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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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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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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