Ringo Starr Quotes

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

Drumming is my middle name.

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

My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

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

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

Peace and love, peace and love!

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

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

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

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

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'

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

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

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

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

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.

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

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

Beatles, women and children first!

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.

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

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

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

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