Latest Ringo Starr Quotes from Interviews

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• I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

  Ringo Starr

  Music Is, Stills, Haircuts

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

  Ringo Starr

  And Love, Generations, Madness

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

  Ringo Starr

  Running, Phones, People

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

• I've never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.

  Ringo Starr

  Gone, Starting Out, Bedroom

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

  Ringo Starr

  Drummer, Deals, Whole

  "Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

• I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.

  Ringo Starr

  Ideas, Solo, Bigs

  "Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

• The kids are interested in the music of them. They're not interested in mop-tops and Beatle boots and crazy suits. It's all down to the music now - that's what they hear, and that's what they love.

  Ringo Starr

  Crazy, Kids, Boots

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Gaps can be very emotional. I mean, that's in my drumming. When I drum, you know, I don't need to drum all over the track. I play with the singer and I can back off.

  Ringo Starr

  Mean, Emotional, Play

  "Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. January 15, 2010.

• If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.

  Ringo Starr

  Night, Play, Boring

  Source: www.wbur.org

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

  Ringo Starr

  Space, Felt

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Ringo Starr

  Love Is, Band, Rooms

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

  Ringo Starr

  Broken, Body, Bones

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I am the best rock drummer on the planet.

  Ringo Starr

  Rocks, Drummer, Planets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm a musician and I'm really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.

  Ringo Starr

  Blessed, Play, Musician

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.

  Ringo Starr

  Fun, Airplane, Too Much

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• 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.

  Ringo Starr

  Song, Mean, Thinking

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.

  Ringo Starr

  Messages

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• 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.

  Ringo Starr

  Notebook, Years, Ideas

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.

  Ringo Starr

  Grateful, Humans, Human Beings

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• I have no anonymity.I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there.

  Ringo Starr

  Years, Stories, Half

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, People, Bass

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

  Ringo Starr

  Three, Lines, Bass

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.

  Ringo Starr

  Hate, Heart, Track

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Track, Different

  Source: alltheseletters.com

• I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Rooms, Drummer

  Source: alltheseletters.com