Ringo Starr Quotes
Top 88 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.
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.
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
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.
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 was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.
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.
If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
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.
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.
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money.
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.
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.
(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.
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.
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: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that ... I think the search has been on since the '60s.
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.
I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.
When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.
If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.