Ringo Starr Quotes

Beatles, women and children first!

I made all my mistakes playing with people.

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.

I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.

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.

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

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.

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.

I used to wish I could write songs like the others - and I've tried but I just can't. I get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune and sing it to the others they always say 'Yeah, it always sounds like such a thing' and when they point it out I see what they mean. But I did get a part credit as a composer on one - it was called What Goes On.

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it.

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

Drumming is my middle name.

I'm the greatest in this world.

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.

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

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

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.

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

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.

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

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