Top 100 Ringo Starr Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m the greatest in this world.”

— Ringo Starr

2. “You either kiss the future or the past goodbye.”

— Ringo Starr

3. “Peace and love, peace and love!”

— Ringo Starr

4. “I’m not going to say anything because nobody believes me when I do.”

— Ringo Starr

5. “Last night I had a peace dream...”

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6. “Everything government touches turns to crap.”

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7. “Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.”

— Ringo Starr

8. “Drumming is my middle name.”

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9. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

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

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

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12. “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

13. “I mean, women are very important to me. I don’t know, they just drive me crazy.”

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14. “I am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.”

— Ringo Starr

15. “I’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.”

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16. “I like Beethoven, especially the poems.”

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17. “Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.”

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18. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

19. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

20. “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

21. “It all comes down to who you crucify, you either kiss the past or future good-bye.”

— Ringo Starr

22. “I hate click tracks. I’m to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat.”

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23. “The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.”

— Ringo Starr

24. “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.”

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25. “A lot of the players I’m with, thank God, we’re all still vertical. We’ve lost so many great players through the years, and we’re still standing, as Elton John says.”

— Ringo Starr

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

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27. “I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you’re so ill.”

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

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29. “We thought we’d be really big in Liverpool.”

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30. “I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.”

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

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32. “No, no, no, I don’t snort no more, I’m tired of waking up on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, then it makes it hard to find the door.”

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33. “I don’t like talking. It’s how I’m built. Some people gab all day and some play it smogo. I don’t mind talking or smiling, it’s just I don’t do it very much. I haven’t got a smiling face or a talking mouth.”

— Ringo Starr

34. “The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.”

— Ringo Starr

35. “America: It’s like Britain, only with buttons.”

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36. “I’ve never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.”

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37. “John had Julian and I had Zak so we’d try to do the fatherly things. We’d try to do manly things too; we’d go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude.”

— Ringo Starr

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

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39. “My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can’t, never have been able to.”

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40. “Wake up meat head, don’t pretend that you are dead.”

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41. “Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn’t want to follow.”

— Ringo Starr

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

— Ringo Starr

43. “You’re like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I’ll get you is to get you in bed.”

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44. “Believe me, I wish this song was yours instead of mine.”

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45. “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

46. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

47. “From 13, I wanted to play drums. I wanted to play with good people and I’m still doing it. I still love it so that’s why I do it.”

— Ringo Starr

48. “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.”

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49. “The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite.”

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50. “We’d get in the car and i’d look over at John and say ‘Christ. Look at you. You’re a bloody phenomenon!’ and just laugh because it was only him.”

— Ringo Starr