Top 25 Ringo Starr Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don’t remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

We’ve got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children’s problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it’s fine, and then some days we just are at each other’s throat.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

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.

That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

I never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

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.

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way – where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul‘s way. You know, ‘cuz they were the writers.

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke – Go and have a look in my bedroom, It’s covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

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.

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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.

For me, God is in my life. I don’t hide from that… I think the search has been on since the ’60s.

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.

America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.

Drumming is my middle name.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.

I love the modern technology now.