Ringo Starr Quotes
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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.
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I get on with kids and I feel that's because I am one.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.
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The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
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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.
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That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
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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...
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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We the band had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play...
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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.
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I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
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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.
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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.
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The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?
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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.
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I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
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Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.