Ringo Starr Quotes

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

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

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'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!

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

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

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.

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

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.

I've always felt that a space is as good as a fill.

I'd like to end up sort ofunforgettable.

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

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

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

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

So this is America. They must be out of their minds.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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'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.

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

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

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 am the best rock drummer on the planet.

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

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

Last night I had a peace dream.

When you're in a band - before it got to grunge - you dressed the bit. So yeah, I've always had an attitude with the clothes.

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

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.

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.

The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you'll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss.

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.

I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

I think I'm more prolific in the songwriting.

I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.

I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.

A lot of the players I'm with, thank God, we're all still vertical. We've lost so many great players through the years, and we're still standing, as Elton John says.

I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

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.