Ringo Starr Quotes

• 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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• We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

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• The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

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• That’s when we decided to stop in ’66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn’t. I joined in ’62, and we’d finished touring in ’66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other… and create any fantasy that came out of anybody’s brain.

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• So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

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

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• I’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

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• I mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.

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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 couldn’t put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would’ve stayed with the band.

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• George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way – where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul’s way. You know, ‘cuz they were the writers.

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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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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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