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" Everything government touches turns to crap. "
Ringo Starr
Turns
Government
Everything
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" For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s. "
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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. "
Ringo Starr
Way
Know
Independence
" 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
Musicians
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
You
Brain
Create
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
Know
Age
Good
" I get by with a little help from my friends. "
Ringo Starr
Little
Friends
Get
" 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
Back
Doing
" People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know. "
Ringo Starr
You
People
Liverpool
" 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
Know
You
Play
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
Look
Friends
Person
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
Me
Best
Sometimes
" If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is. "
Ringo Starr
Pick
You
Just
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
Welcome
Together
Home
" And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album. "
Ringo Starr
Band
White
Me
" We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter. "
Ringo Starr
Love
Music
Laughter
" Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice. "
Ringo Starr
Time
Nice
Happier
" Drumming is my middle name. "
Ringo Starr
Name
Drumming
Middle
" So this is America. They must be out of their minds. "
Ringo Starr
Must
Out
Minds
" I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do. "
Ringo Starr
People
Myself
Person
" 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 Starr
Try
Far
Marriage
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
Yourself
Time
Learning
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
Up
Time
Band
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
End Of The Day
Mountains
Up
" I love the modern technology now. "
Ringo Starr
I Love
Technology
Now
" The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite. "
Ringo Starr
Abbey
Side
Favorite
" That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end. "
Ringo Starr
Off
Alcohol
Emotions
" America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. "
Ringo Starr
Only
Like
Buttons
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
Go
Feet
Love
" 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. "
Ringo Starr
Bedroom
Sound
May
" First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. "
Ringo Starr
Drummer
First
Money