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Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.
Ringo Starr
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Ringo Starr
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 7
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Drumming is my middle name.
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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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Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.
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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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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
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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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I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
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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 am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
Ringo Starr
