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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

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Ringo Starr
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 7
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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 like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
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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'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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Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
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The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
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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 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'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.
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When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.
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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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I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
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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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Peace and love, peace and love!
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I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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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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I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.
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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.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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