Ringo Starr Quotes

“Peace and love.”

“Well, I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.”

“I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.”

“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.”

“At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.”

“For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that. I think the search has been on since the '60s.”

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

“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.”

“I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.”

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

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

“Drumming is my middle name.”

“I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.”

“I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums. I've always played with other musicians. There's no joy for me in playing on my own. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.”

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

“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.”

“And so we went away to play, and we'd come back to Liverpool. And then we'd go to Germany, and that's where I met the Beatles.”

“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.”

“When we first started, things basically went John and Paul's way because they were the writers, and they would say, "This is the song," and I would play as creatively as I could.”

“George was getting a lot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way.”

“And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One: I had left the band on the White Album.”

“And I came back and it was great, 'cause George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band.”

“I couldn't put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would've stayed with the band.”

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

“The second side of Abbey Road is my favourite.”