Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.
RINGO STARRWe will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
More Ringo Starr Quotes
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I am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.
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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
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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.
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I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.
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They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.
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Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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I am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that.
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Everything government touches turns to crap.
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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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I’d like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We’d have a rocky edge.
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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.
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You’re like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I’ll get you is to get you in bed.
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Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
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I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
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The drummer’s always going to be there. They’re the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
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I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.
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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.
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Ringo: ‘I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.
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I made all my mistakes playing with people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Peace and love, peace and love!
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I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.
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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.
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I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.
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