Ringo Starr Quotes

• America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.

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• Drumming is my middle name.

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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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• When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

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• If you made a record, I’d probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That’s just how it is.

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• I’d like to end up sort of unforgettable.

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• I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that’s the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

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• People only look at me as a Beatle, but my friends look at me as a whole person. That’s how life works, but it’s not bugging me anymore.

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• I want to deal with what’s in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that’s not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

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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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• Everything government touches turns to crap.

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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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• That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

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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.

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  Tags in Back, Doing, Come

• And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One – I had left the band on the White Album.

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• Well I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

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  Tags in Nice, Getting, Happier

• I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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• And I came back and it was great, ‘cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.

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  Tags in Home, Back, Better

• We’ve got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children’s problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it’s fine, and then some days we just are at each other’s throat.

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  Tags in Problems, Days

• 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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  Tags in Day, Mean, Little

Ringo Starr (30)

Birth:	7th July, 1940
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Musician

About

Richard Starkey, known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.

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