It's international now ... Wherever I am on my birthday that's where we do it. And it's growing by the response I get, it's come a long way ... In Chicago was the first one and we've been to New York and we've done several times in LA and we did it in Hamburg.

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

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laughter missing

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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musical sound looks

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

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boring play night

I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.

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feel-good soul play

F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them... My soul is that of a drummer... It came to where I had to make a decision - I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.

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love-of-my-life decision play

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

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liverpool bigs

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

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recovery alcohol cutting

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

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band study mistake

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

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used different firsts

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

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class boys school

Peace and love, peace and love!

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peace-and-love and-love peace

Beatles, women and children first!

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children firsts

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

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bed evil way

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.

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titles fans song

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.

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prayer people thinking

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'

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saying-yes happened done

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

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drug fans meditation

Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.

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emotional writing thinking

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

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felt space

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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emotional play mean