Ringo Starr Quotes
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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.
— Ringo Starr
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.
— Ringo Starr
Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
— Ringo Starr
Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.
— Ringo Starr
The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
— Ringo Starr
Drumming is my middle name.
— Ringo Starr
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
— Ringo Starr
I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.
— Ringo Starr
They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
— Ringo Starr
I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.
— Ringo Starr
When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
— Ringo Starr
I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
— Ringo Starr
Love is all you need" - The Beatles -
"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make"
- The Beatles - — The Beatles
"And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love, you make"
- The Beatles - — The Beatles
Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play
— Ringo Starr
If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
— Ringo Starr
Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.
— Ringo Starr
We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play
— Ringo Starr
(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland. — Ringo Starr
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland. — Ringo Starr
I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
— Ringo Starr
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
— Ringo Starr
I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
— Ringo Starr
When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.
— Ringo Starr
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.
— Ringo Starr
I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.
— Ringo Starr
The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.
— Ringo Starr
I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
— Ringo Starr
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.
— Ringo Starr
I am, I definitely am. I'm really excited about that ...
— Ringo Starr
I love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I've never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.
— Ringo Starr
I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.
— Ringo Starr
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.
— Ringo Starr
I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
— Ringo Starr
People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.
— Ringo Starr
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
— Ringo Starr
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money.
— Ringo Starr
I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.
— Ringo Starr
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.
— Ringo Starr
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.
— Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm.
— Jon Landau
I made all my mistakes playing with people.
— Ringo Starr
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.
— Ringo Starr
Peace and love, peace and love!
— Ringo Starr
Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine.
— Ringo Starr
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
— Ringo Starr
You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues ... And you know it don't come easy.
— Ringo Starr
I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
— Ringo Starr
I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
— Ringo Starr
And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
— Ringo Starr
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
— Ringo Starr
Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
— Ringo Starr
You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
— Ringo Starr
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.
— Ringo Starr
I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
— Ringo Starr
I'm the greatest in this world.
— Ringo Starr
I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.
— Ringo Starr
I love the modern technology now.
— Ringo Starr
You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.
— Ringo Starr
Everything government touches turns to crap.
— Ringo Starr
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.
— Ben Kingsley
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.
— Ringo Starr
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.
— Ringo Starr
Beatles, women and children first!
— Ringo Starr
When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
— Ringo Starr
For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that ... I think the search has been on since the '60s.
— Ringo Starr
The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss.
— Ringo Starr
I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
— Ringo Starr
We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
— Ringo Starr
I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
— Ringo Starr
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
— Ringo Starr
I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.
— Ringo Starr
I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.
— Ringo Starr
If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.
— Ringo Starr
I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.
— Ringo Starr
So this is America. They must be out of their minds.
— Ringo Starr