Top 100 Quotes About Ringo Starr: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Ringo Starr

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.

Benmont Tench

#4. I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr!

Adele

#5. 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

#6. I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo. I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, 'Let There Be Drums,' and I'd play along with it.

Tipper Gore

#7. I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

Kurt Cobain

#8. As usual, Ringo Starr uttered the best break-up quote: "This is all news to me.

Tim Riley

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I love the modern technology now.

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#12. I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that's why I'm so slow.

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

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

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#16. They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

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#17. I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

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#18. I'm the greatest in this world.

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#19. I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

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#20. I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

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#21. I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

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#22. I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

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

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#24. For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that ... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

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#25. I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit ... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards ... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

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#26. The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.

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

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#28. I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

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#29. Drumming is my middle name.

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#30. John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude

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#31. 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.

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#32. Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play

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#33. You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

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#34. That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other ... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

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#35. Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

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#36. 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.

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#37. 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.

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#38. We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

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

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#40. Peace and love, peace and love!

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#41. 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.

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#42. 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.

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#43. I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

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

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#46. I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!

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#47. People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

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

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#50. And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

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#51. I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

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#52. And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.

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#53. 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.

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#54. 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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#55. For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

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#56. I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.

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#57. Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

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#58. I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

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

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#60. Everything government touches turns to crap.

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#61. I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.

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#62. Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.

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#63. A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

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#64. We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

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

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#66. 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.

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#67. When I'm ninety-five and it's 'This is Your Life' time, they'll still be referring to me as 'ex-Beatle' ... it does have it's advantages. It's still the best way to get a good table at a resturant.

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#68. Beatles, women and children first!

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#69. George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

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#70. I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan ... and I keep fit and keep moving ... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian ... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices ... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry.

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#71. I made all my mistakes playing with people.

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#72. (Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.

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

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#74. If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.

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#75. The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

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#76. The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

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#77. 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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#78. I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We'd seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren't really a band at all.

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#79. I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned ...

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#80. 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.

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

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

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#83. I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.

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#84. I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

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

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#86. 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.

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#87. I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!

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#88. I don't like talking. It's how I'm built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don't mind talking or smiling, it's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth.

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

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#90. 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.

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#91. 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.

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#92. When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

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#93. I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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.

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