Ringo Starr Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Everything government touches turns to crap.”
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“We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play”
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“Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love.' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.”
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“I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.”
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“I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.”
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“My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.”
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“The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.”
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“I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'”
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“Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.”
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“I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.”
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“I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.”
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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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“Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.”
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“I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.”
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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'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 hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.”
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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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“When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.”
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“With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.”
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“I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.”
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“I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.”
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“Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.”
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“I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.”
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“Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about”
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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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“That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.”
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“I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.”
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