Ringo Starr Quotes

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.

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.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

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

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

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

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

I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.

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.

I'm quite honored by it. They [people] tell me that , 'If it hadn't of been for you, I wouldn't have played drums.' Hey, don't blame me, I was just up there doing my stuff. So no, I never take it as any real pressure.

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'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.

F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them... My soul is that of a drummer... It came to where I had to make a decision - I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.

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

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

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

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

I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids.

If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.

No, no, no, I don't snort no more, I'm tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.

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 don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.

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.

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.

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

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.

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

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

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

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

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.