“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’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.

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

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

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 love being in a band. I love playing with other human beings. I’ve never practiced drums unless there was another human being in the room.

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.

I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.

Peace and love, peace and love!

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

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

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.

I’d like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We’d have a rocky edge.

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

I’ve said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.

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

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’

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man… not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to rediscover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me (often without my knowing it).

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you’ve heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.