Top 100 Ringo Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Good to see you, Ty," Steve said. "Welcome to Phantom Works." "Shhhh . . ." Tyler said. "Somebody might hear!" "There's a sign," Steve pointed out.
John Ringo
#3. If you don't tell people your plans they can't follow along." "They don't follow along anyway," Tyler said. "Most of them do their level best to piss in your well just to piss in your well.
John Ringo
#4. 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
#7. More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.
John Ringo
#8. 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.
Ringo Starr
#9. Where are Sam and Grace?"
"Ringo left in his car a few hours ago. He must've taken Grace with him. I don't know where they went."
"You didn't ask?"
"We're not married" Cole said, and added, in a more humble tone, "yet".
Maggie Stiefvater
#10. 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
#11. We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play
Ringo Starr
#12. Zombies don't bother me, sir," Faith said, dimpling cutely. "They're insane, hungry, angry animals. They won't kill me from professional courtesy, sir.
John Ringo
#13. 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'
Ringo Starr
#14. Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road.
Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass
John Ringo
#15. I think that as an individual and as individuals in general, if we can't leave the earth feeling like we left something that someone in the future can use then I don't feel like we've served our purpose on this earth in an effective manner.
Jerome Ringo
#16. First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money.
Ringo Starr
#17. Ringo's eyes narrowed as he studied me. "Yer different." "Than what? A hedgehog?" He
April White
#18. We need to put your sister in a glass case like Snow White," Colonel Hamilton said, his arms crossed. He was monitoring the radio chatter from the deck of a gunboat. "With a sign on it that says 'Break in the event of a zombie apocalypse.'
John Ringo
#19. They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
Ringo Starr
#20. I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
Ringo Starr
#21. It is said that in science the greatest changes come about when some researcher says "Hmmm. That's odd." The same can be said for relationships: "That's not my shade of lipstick . . ." - warfare: "That's an odd dust cloud . . ." Etc.
John Ringo
#23. Rich tofu-eaters would move out to the country, buy a small farm that was going under anyway and then not know what to do with it. (See Green Acres and multiply by hundreds of thousands and both members Eva Gabor. But crossed with Karen Carpenter and take away all shreds of common sense.)
John Ringo
#24. 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.
Ringo Starr
#25. I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
Ringo Starr
#26. I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
Ringo Starr
#27. She wasn't sure if she could just stand there. It was much easier to walk around and be shouty.
John Ringo
#28. I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.
Ringo Starr
#29. The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.
Ringo Starr
#30. I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.
Jerome Ringo
#31. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.
Christina Ricci
#32. So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.
John Ringo
#33. 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
#34. You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.
John Ringo
#35. 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.
Ringo Starr
#36. It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different.
David
#37. 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.
Ringo Starr
#38. When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
Ringo Starr
#39. I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.
Ringo Starr
#41. 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
Ringo Starr
#42. 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
#43. Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play
Ringo Starr
#44. You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
Ringo Starr
#45. 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.
Ringo Starr
#46. There is a god somewhere that is angry because we're combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig,
John Ringo
#47. The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo ... God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life.
John Lennon
#48. Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
John Ringo
#49. The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later.
James Tobin
#50. Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.
Ringo Starr
#51. 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
#52. 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.
Ringo Starr
#54. Keep moving forward until we find something better to do," Hinchcliffe replied. "Maybe find the nursery for the dog-demons. I'd rather kill them stillborn." "I didn't know you were a Democrat, Staff Sergeant," Berg said with a grin. "Don't ask, don't tell, Two-Gun.
John Ringo
#55. 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.
Ringo Starr
#56. I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
Ringo Starr
#57. Nuke em till they glow and then shoot 'em in the dark
John Ringo
#58. None of would've made it alone" John once explained, "because Paul wasn't strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.
Jonathan Cott
#59. The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments.
Richard Lester
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.
Paul Krassner
#64. I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.
Ringo Starr
#65. Shall I show him in or tell him to go find a short and unpleasant route to hell?
John Ringo
#66. I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo.
Ludacris
#68. Team Inara, commence Operation Joss-Whedon-Is-A-God.
John Ringo
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
Ringo Starr
#72. 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
#73. Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.
Peter Tork
#74. 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!
Ringo Starr
#75. To most people in a bureaucracy, the main thing is that they've got a steady paycheck, because who ever lays off a bureaucrat?
John Ringo
#76. People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.
Ringo Starr
#77. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them. "Ode of Remembrance" Lawrence Binyon
John Ringo
#78. 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.
Ringo Starr
#79. [Virginia] has a very sizeable collection of democrats, liberals and moonbats. (Yes, they can be separated.)
John Ringo
#80. I am more of a conservationist, myself. And people have come to me and said, "Wow, you're an African-American conservationist!" And my response is, "No, I'm a conservationist who happens to be black."
Jerome Ringo
#81. You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues ... And you know it don't come easy.
Ringo Starr
#82. 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.
Ringo Starr
#83. Away Team, Guppy. Yes, we can." "If you would, please," Sophia radioed. "Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
John Ringo
#84. 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.'
Ringo Starr
#85. 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.
Ringo Starr
#86. I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THESE MOTHERFUCKING ZOMBIES ON THIS MOTHERFUCKING . . ." She screamed at the top of her lungs.
John Ringo
#87. 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
#88. I have been to the speed of God, sir ... and I discommend it.
John Ringo
#89. 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.
Ringo Starr
#90. Nuke them until they glow and shoot them in the dark.
No questions.
John Ringo
#91. 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.
Ringo Starr
#92. He wasn't Ringo, though. He was more like Paul. Maureen was Ringo, except she wasn't very funny. I was George, except I wasn't shy, or spiritual. Martin was John, except he wasn't talented or cool. Thinking about it, maybe we were more like another group with four people in it.
Nick Hornby
#93. The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change. I'd have to say that climate change is the single most important issue facing the environmental community and communities as a whole.
Jerome Ringo
#94. There's a hole in my pocket," Ringo puzzled. "Maybe that's the way out?
The Beatles
#95. 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.
Ringo Starr
#96. Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
Ringo Starr
#97. Ringo is Ringo, that's all there is to it. And he's every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny and kind as he seems. He was quite simply the heart of the Beatles
John Lennon
#98. I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.
Ringo Starr
#99. I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
Ringo Starr
#100. Everything government touches turns to crap.
Ringo Starr
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