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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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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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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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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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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I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
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Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.
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I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.
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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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Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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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'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 like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
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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've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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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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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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Drumming is my middle name.
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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 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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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 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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