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I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

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.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

Drumming is my middle name.

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

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

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.

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

I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

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.

I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!

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

I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.

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.

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.

I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can 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.

I am, I definitely am. I'm really excited about that ...

If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.

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

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 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.

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

I made all my mistakes playing with people.

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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.

Peace and love, peace and love!

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

They said do what you want, because if we don't like it, no-one will hear it.

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

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.

Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play

Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.

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

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.

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.

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

Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues ... And you know it don't come easy.

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

I'm the greatest in this world.

You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

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.

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.

I love the modern technology now.

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.

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

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'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.

The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.

I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.

I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.

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

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 have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.

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

Beatles, women and children first!

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

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

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

It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

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.

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.