Quotes by Ringo Starr

About Ringo Starr:

Richard Starkey is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals, usually for one song on an album, including "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine" and their cover of "Act Naturally". He also wrote the Beatles' songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden", and is credited as a co-writer of others, such as "What Goes On" and "Flying".
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I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

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

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 an...

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

"How do you find America?" "Turn left at Greenland.

Ringo Starr

Peace and love, peace and love!

Ringo Starr

Everything government touches turns to crap.

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

And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.

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

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

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

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

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

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

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 love the modern technology now.

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

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

Ringo Starr

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameRingo Starr
  • DescriptionBritish musician, former member of the Beatles
  • AliasesRichard Starkey
  • BornJuly 7, 1940
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Drummer; Composer; Voice Actor; Singer-songwriter
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire; Academy Award For Best Original Score