Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by Ringo Starr - Page 2

We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.

I'd like to end up sort ofunforgettable.

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

I am, I definitely am. I'm really excited about that.

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

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

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.

They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It's a different religion from ours - I think.

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.

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.

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

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

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

Beatles, women and children first!

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.

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.

I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

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

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.

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

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.

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.

I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I'm not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.

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.

I made all my mistakes playing with people.

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.

You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.

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.

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.

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.

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'

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!

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

I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

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.

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.

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.

Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play

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

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.

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

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.

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 have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

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.

I like playing with a live band and I've got my act and we're fine.

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

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

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