Ringo Starr Quotes

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

My soul is that of a drummer.... I didn't do it to become rich and famous. I did it because it was the love of my life.

You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.

Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

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.

Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love.' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.

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

Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.

I'm left handed and I'm playing a right handed kit... That's why everyone thought, 'Wow, he's a genius,' but all I was doing was trying to play backwards... It's one of those mad accidents, you can't learn it.

The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That's all they'll ever be.

Peace and love, peace and love!

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

Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

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

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 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.

Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn't want to follow.

With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because of that, I'm doing this. I'm making records, I'm touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn't doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can't read, but I really didn't do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I'm trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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

F irst and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them... My soul is that of a drummer... It came to where I had to make a decision - I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.