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My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
Ringo Starr
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Ringo Starr
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 7
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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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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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Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.
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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 think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
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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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Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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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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When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
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Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.
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I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
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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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