Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Pete Best

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian musician Pete Best.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Randolph Peter Best is an English musician known as the drummer of the English rock band the Beatles immediately before the band achieved worldwide fame. Fired from the group in 1962 after playing drums as a Beatle for the previous two years in Germany and England, he started his own band, the Pete Best Four. He later joined and started many bands over the years. He is one of several people who have been referred to as a Fifth Beatle.

Indian - Musician | Born: November 24, 1941

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Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and that hunger has remained with the musicians.

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I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany.

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I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them.

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We were at our best when we were playing in the dance halls of Liverpool and Hamburg. The world never saw that.

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When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

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Many things have been said about what happened, but I don't know either. Maybe someday. One thing I'm sure of is that all the things that have happened to me, good and bad, happy and sad, have made me what I am today.

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Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

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John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her

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I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

Pete Best

The first one I actually met was George Harrison.

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