Ringo Starr Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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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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The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
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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.
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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.
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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'...
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The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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Beatles, women and children first!
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I'm the greatest in this world.
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I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
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I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.
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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.