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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. "
Ringo Starr
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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Know
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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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Anything
" 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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" America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. "
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Like
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" 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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Me
" I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable. "
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" 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. "
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Lost
Look
" I get by with a little help from my friends. "
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Friends
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" I love the modern technology now. "
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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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Sound
May
" 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. "
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Short
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" 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. "
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" I like Beethoven, especially the poems. "
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Like
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" 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. "
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Time
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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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" 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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Home
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People
Liverpool