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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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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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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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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've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.
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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 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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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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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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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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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 love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
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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've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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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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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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Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.
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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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Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.
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