Ringo Starr Quotes - Page 4

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• I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.

  Ringo Starr

  Messages

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

  Ringo Starr

  Men, Band, Keith

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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.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Different, Occupation

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• Drumming is my middle name.

  Ringo Starr

  Names, Drumming, Middle

  Song: Drumming Is My Madness

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• I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.

  Ringo Starr

  Love Is, Band, Said

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• Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.

  Ringo Starr

  Friendship, Meat, Wake Up

  Song: Back Off Boogaloo, 2007

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• John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude

  Ringo Starr

  Attitude, Real, Trying

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• People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

  Ringo Starr

  Moving, People, Knows

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• I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Rooms, Drummer

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.

  Ringo Starr

  Ideas, Solo, Bigs

  "Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

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• I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.

  Ringo Starr

  Kids, Feels

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• I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune and sing it to the others they always say 'Yeah, it always sounds like such a thing' and when they point it out I see what they mean. But I did get a part credit as a composer on one - it was called What Goes On.

  Ringo Starr

  Song, Mean, Writing

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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.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Firsts, Making Money

  "The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers". Book by Max Weinberg and Robert Santelli, 1984.

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• Last night I had a peace dream.

  Ringo Starr

  Dream, Night, Lasts

  Song: Peace Dream, Album: Y Not, 2010

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• The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss.

  Ringo Starr

  Kicking

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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.

  Ringo Starr

  Together, Germany, Band

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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.

  Ringo Starr

  Blessed, Play, Musician

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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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.

  Ringo Starr

  Break Up, War, Mean

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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.

  Ringo Starr

  Guitar, Practice, Play

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.'

  Ringo Starr

  Dad, Real, Son

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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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.

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Play, Two

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• I'm the greatest in this world.

  Ringo Starr

  World, This World, Egotism

  Song: I'm The Greatest

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• From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I'm still doing it. I still love it so that's why I do it.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, People, Wanted

  "Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band Talk PHOTOGRAPH, Their Upcoming Latin American Tour, How They Select Their Songs, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. October 30, 2013.

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• I made all my mistakes playing with people.

  Ringo Starr

  Mistake, People, Made

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

  Ringo Starr

  Running, Nice, Book

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