Quotes By 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 anybody's brain.

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

Drumming is my middle name.

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.

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.

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

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.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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.

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.

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

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

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

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

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

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.

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

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

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 love the modern technology now.

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

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 never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with.

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

Everything government touches turns to crap.

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

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

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.

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.