Quotes By Ringo Starr

If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.

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

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned.

George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers.

America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

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

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually a lot of kids know the music, and if anything is left, we have left really good music, and that's the important part, not the mop-tops or whatever.

I don't collect any memorabilia. I wish I'd have kept everything I had. But who knew you had to keep it. Just gave it away. And we lost so much and we didn't look after a lot of it.

I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.

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.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

I love the modern technology now.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this - 'cuz we did it for two years. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.

Drumming is my middle name.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one. But I have no problems of putting titles and lines from other songs in my songs, because they're great lines and great titles.

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 like Beethoven, especially the poems.

I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.

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

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.