"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."
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"When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle'...it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant."
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"I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids."
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"I made all my mistakes playing with people."
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"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."
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"Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play"
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"John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude"
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"I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge."
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"I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever."
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"I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love."
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"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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"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."
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"Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine."
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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."
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"If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is."
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"I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there."
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"I am the best rock drummer on the planet."
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"I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!"
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"I'm quite honored by it. They [people] tell me that , 'If it hadn't of been for you, I wouldn't have played drums.' Hey, don't blame me, I was just up there doing my stuff. So no, I never take it as any real pressure."
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"Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off."
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