I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill.
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
I know when I feel good when I play. There's a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it's still playing live. For me, it's what expands my soul.
I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'
Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about
I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.
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 am, I definitely am. I'm really excited about that.
That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.
I don't like talking. It's how I'm built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don't mind talking or smiling, it's just I don't do it very much. I haven't got a smiling face or a talking mouth.
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.
They said do what you want, because if we don't like it no one will hear it.
We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.
I'd like to end up sort ofunforgettable.
I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo.
I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.
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!
I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.
