Ringo Starr Quotes

“I am a big Beatles fan. And, you know, unbeknownst to anyone, I used to be one.”

“I think the most exciting thing is that 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.”

“Gene Autry was the most. Go and have a look in my bedroom, it's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.”

“I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs, though they did actually break up Liverpool. I remember there were big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them.”

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

“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.”

“We've got the children so we have to deal with each other. Some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.”

“America: it's like Britain, only with buttons.”

“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.”

“I love the modern technology now.”

“I like Beethoven, especially the poems.”