Top 100 Ringo's Quotes
#1. The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments.
Richard Lester
#2. Ringo's chuckle got tangled up with a cough. He tossed back a shot, cleared his throat, and said, Politics, from the Latin. Poly, meaning 'many.' Ticks meaning 'bloodsucking little bastards.
Mary Doria Russell
#3. Ringo's eyes narrowed as he studied me. "Yer different." "Than what? A hedgehog?" He
April White
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. That's the way to get the chicks for free. And getting the chicks for free is the only true pursuit for a grown-up male. Before puberty, of course, it's avoiding them like the plague.
John Ringo
#7. I am in an undisclosed location. I call it . . . the Laaaair." "The Lair?" Steve said, laughing. "Hey, every Evil Overlord has to have a lair," Tyler said. "I couldn't find a volcano next to a piranha pit but it's close . . .
John Ringo
#8. (Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.
Ringo Starr
#9. 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.
Ringo Starr
#10. As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.
Greg Lake
#11. 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.
Ringo Starr
#12. 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
#13. There's a hole in my pocket," Ringo puzzled. "Maybe that's the way out?
The Beatles
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
Ringo Starr
#20. 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
#21. Nuke em till they glow and then shoot 'em in the dark
John Ringo
#22. I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
Ringo Starr
#23. 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
#24. 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
#26. 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
#27. Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun
George Harrison
#28. Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
Ringo Starr
#29. Ringo Star's, real name is Richard Starkey.
John Brown
#30. In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All Stars band together. It's actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I've put that together ... more and more realizing that's what I do.
Ringo Starr
#31. America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
Ringo Starr
#32. I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.
Ringo Starr
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.
Ringo Starr
#36. The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.
John Ringo
#37. 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
#38. There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually
we drank.
Ringo Starr
#39. John was the ne'er-do-well father, Paul was the hardworking mother trying to keep everything together. George was a slightly surly teenager, and Ringo was this happy-go-lucky young kid with his model airplane. That's really how it was.
Ray Connolly
#40. The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.
Ringo Starr
#41. But it's pretty hard to get a liberal off their mental grooves.)
John Ringo
#42. 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.
Ringo Starr
#43. 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.
Ringo Starr
#44. 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
#45. 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.
Ringo Starr
#46. 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
#47. 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.
Ringo Starr
#48. 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
#49. 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 ...
Ringo Starr
#50. Some of my greatest role models are the young children who ask the right questions - who will sit down and share their concerns. They're not just learning from me - they're educating me. That's what drives me.
Jerome Ringo
#51. Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative ones that fill the airwaves with their lies and are in power and want to oppress the world. There. Now give me money so that I can soothsay again and assuage your guilt.
John Ringo
#52. 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
#53. I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.
Ringo Starr
#54. 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
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. I am the best rock drummer on the planet.
Ringo Starr
#59. They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
Ringo Starr
#60. 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
#61. First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things ... But I didn't play drums to make money.
Ringo Starr
#62. 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
#63. Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road.
Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass
John Ringo
#64. 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
#65. I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.
Ringo Starr
#66. We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play
Ringo Starr
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.
John Ringo
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
Ringo Starr
#78. 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
#79. Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
John Ringo
#80. 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
#81. There is a god somewhere that is angry because we're combining stuff like Cutty Sark with fifty-year-old Laphroaig,
John Ringo
#82. 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
#83. You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.
Ringo Starr
#84. Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play
Ringo Starr
#85. 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
#86. 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
#88. I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.
Ringo Starr
#89. Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.
Ringo Starr
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. You really should do some research for a change instead of just listening to the voices in your head.
John Ringo
#94. 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
#95. So the starting point and the basis of their liberal wails of anguish always and always is guilt. Guilt, guilt, guilt.
John Ringo
#96. 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
#97. I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.
Jerome Ringo
#98. The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.
Ringo Starr
#99. I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.
Ringo Starr
#100. She wasn't sure if she could just stand there. It was much easier to walk around and be shouty.
John Ringo
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