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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.

Ringo Starr

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Ringo Starr
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 7
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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 have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
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I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.
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Last night I had a peace dream.
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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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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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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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People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
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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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Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.
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Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
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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 play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
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