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- "I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying "yes"
- Reporter: Why do you think you get more fan mail than the other Beatles?
Ringo: " I don't know. I suppose it's because more people write me."
- "I became a drummer because it's the only thing I could do. But whenever I hear another drummer, I know I'm no good.....I'm not good on the technical things, but I'm good with all the motions, swinging my head, like."
- "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."
- "I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs."
- "So this is America. They must be out of their minds." (1964, arriving in America for the first time).
- "I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do."
- "We'd grown up a little, I think. I think grass was really influential in a lot of our changes, especially with the writers."
- Reporter: What did you think when the pilot got on the intercom, before you landed at Kennedy (possible engine problems)?
Ringo: Beatles, Women, and children first!
- Reporter: "Do you like topless bathing suits?"
Ringo: "We've been wearing them for years."
- Reporter: "Don't you ever get a haircut?"
George: "I had one yesterday."
Ringo: "You should have seen him the day before."
- Reporter: "Who in the world would the Beatles like to meet more than anyone else?"
Ringo: "The real Santa Claus."
- Reporter: "Would you ever accept a girl in your group if she could sing, play an instrument, and wear the Beatle haircut?"
Ringo: "How tall is she?"
- Press: "You and the snow came to Washington at the same time today. Which do you think will have the greater impact?"
Ringo: "The snow. We're going tomorrow."
- "I thought we could have a really good ending to the film, with the police coming in - HEY YOU GET OFF THEM DRUMS!! But they just came bumbling in--You've got to turn that sound down." *shakes his finger* (talking about "Let It Be")
- In HELP, April 1965
JOHN: "How do you feel?"
RINGO: "I used to use me hands."
- "Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatle songs--I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about."
- On a campaign in Detroit to stamp out the Beatles: "We're starting a campaign to stamp out Detroit."
- "You know I'm not very good at singing because I haven't got a great range. So they write songs for me that are pretty low and not too hard."
- "There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank."
- "It was magical. I mean, there were really some loving, caring moments between 4 people. A really amazing closeness, with 4 guys who really loved each other- it was pretty sensational."
- "I used to wish I could write songs like the others- and I've tried but I just can't, I get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune and sing it to the others they always say 'Yeah, it always sounds like such a thing' and when they point it out I see what they mean. But I did get a part credit as a composer on one- it was called what goes on."( his first self composition was Don't pass me by from the white album).
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