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The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.
We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play
They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play
I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.
I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.
For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.
I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.
I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.
If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
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.
Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.
When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.
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.
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.
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.
I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.
I hate click tracks. A lot of people I know like to use click tracks. Like my son is perfect on the click tracks. It makes me to edgy.
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.
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.
Being in The Beatles was a short, incredible period of my life. I had 22 years leading up to it, and it was all over eight years later.
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.
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
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.
At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.
Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.
I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.
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.
I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.
No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.
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.
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.