Ringo Starr Quotes

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

Ringo Starr The Beatles

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• The best way to keep water prices down is to avoid unnecessary increases in costs.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Water

• It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Long
  • Done
  • Road

• I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Movie
  • Order

• This is the age of oddities let loose.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Age
  • Loose

• Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Ball
  • Good Time
  • Don't Stop

• We went to all the local radio stations. We even went all the way down to Detroit, into Windsor.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Detroit
  • Went
  • Radio Station

• I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Optimistic
  • Frustrated
  • Disillusioned

• I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Listen
  • Pop Music
  • Classic Music

• I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Technology
  • Facebooker
  • Grump

• Now, the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else, I don't have anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Smart
  • Gun
  • Silly

• The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • First
  • Heard
  • Began

• After a brain bath was ready to be loved over time and now I think the void is a normal place...

  

  Gustavo Cerati Soda Stereo
  • Loved
  • Void
  • Brain Bath

• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Songs
  • Loved
  • Album

• The internet seems to be what a lot of independent bands are doing these days. They're bypassing the studio - the big studios, EMI and all the record companies - and just doing it themselves, online, selling their stuff, getting known through that medium.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Independent
  • Internet
  • Bands

• Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Album
  • Bands
  • Signature

• It's time for new bands to step up because KISS and Mtley Cre, Aerosmith, The [Rolling] Stones... we're not always gonna be here. Who's gonna replace us? There's no one out there. It's sad.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Kiss
  • Bands
  • Replace

• I don't really know what's going to happen in the future, but I think it's really important for bands to have strong connection with their fans.

  

  Jason Wade
  • Connection
  • Fans
  • Bands

• You might think otherwise, but it doesn't naturally follow that because a law has been passed by Congress and signed by the president, said law actually has to be implemented.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Law

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

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • Bands
  • Mistakes onstage