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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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" I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles. "

Ringo Starr

You

Great

Problems

" 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

Feet

Love

" I love the modern technology now. "

" I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage. "

" 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

" I like Beethoven, especially the poems. "

Ringo Starr

Poems

Beethoven

" 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. "

" I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do. "

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

" 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. "

" The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s. "

Ringo Starr

Life

Think

" 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

Time

Band

" Drumming is my middle name. "

" I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable. "

Ringo Starr

Unforgettable

Sort

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it. "

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

Ringo Starr

Important

Crazy

" 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

Best

Sometimes

" When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here. "

Ringo Starr

New

New York

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

" I get by with a little help from my friends. "

" 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. "

" Everything government touches turns to crap. "

" 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. "

Ringo Starr

Over

Short

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

" America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. "

Ringo Starr

Only

Buttons