Ringo Starr Quotes

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.

The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.

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.

Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love.' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.

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

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.

I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

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.'

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

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

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.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.

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.

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.

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

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

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

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

I'd like to end up sort ofunforgettable.

This was the point of our lives when we found pills, uppers. That's the only way we could continue playing for so long. They were called Preludin, and you could buy them over the counter. We never thought we were doing anything wrong, but we'd get really wired and go on for days. So with beer and Preludin, that's how we survived.

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

It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.

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

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

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.

I am, I definitely am. I'm really excited about that.

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

I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.

Last night I had a peace dream.

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.

Peace and love, peace and love!

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

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

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.

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: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.