110+ Ringo Starr Quotes On Friendship, Stars And Tour

Ringo Starr is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor, best known as the drummer of the Beatles. He was born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940 in Liverpool, England. He has also had a successful solo career, releasing several albums and singles, and has acted in films and television shows. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Ringo Starr on friendship, stars, love.

Top 10 Ringo Starr Quotes

1. Everything government touches turns to crap.
2. Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.
3. 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.
4. Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
5. Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
6. That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
7. 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.
8. I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.
9. 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.
10. I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

Ringo Starr Short Quotes

• The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.
• I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.
• America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
• I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.
• You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.
• I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.
• They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.
• I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
• I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.
• I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.

Ringo Starr Quotes About Love

Peace and love, peace and love! — Ringo Starr

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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

I love the modern technology now. — Ringo Starr

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

Ringo Starr Quotes About Drums

Drumming is my middle name. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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

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

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

Ringo Starr Quotes About Drummer

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer. — Ringo Starr

I am the best rock drummer on the planet. — Ringo Starr

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

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

Ringo Starr Quotes About Beatle

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 — Ringo Starr

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

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

We went to Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage. We had this huge suite of rooms at The Plaza Hotel, with a TV in each room, and we had radios with earpieces. This was too far out. — Ringo Starr

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

Beatles, women and children first! — Ringo Starr

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

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

Ringo Starr Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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. — Ringo Starr

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye. — Ringo Starr

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

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

I made all my mistakes playing with people. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

I'm the greatest in this world. — Ringo Starr

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite. — Ringo Starr

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

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

I am, I definitely am. I'm really excited about that. — Ringo Starr

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

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

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

Last night I had a peace dream. — Ringo Starr

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

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

I love Beethoven, especially the poems. — Ringo Starr

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

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. — Ringo Starr

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

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

Life Lessons by Ringo Starr

1. Life is unpredictable, and it's important to stay positive and enjoy the journey. Ringo Starr has experienced both highs and lows throughout his career, but he has always remained positive and grateful for the opportunities he's been given.
2. It's important to stay humble and appreciate the people who have helped you along the way. Ringo Starr has always been thankful for the support of his bandmates and the fans who have followed him throughout his career.
3. Life is about finding joy in the little things. Ringo Starr has always enjoyed the simple pleasures of life, like spending time with family and friends, and he has never taken success for granted.