Top 100 Ringo Starr Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

52. “I’ve never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I’m here because it happened. But I didn’t do anything to make it happen apart from saying ‘Yes’”

— Ringo Starr

53. “I’d like to end up sort ofunforgettable.”

— Ringo Starr

54. “I feel as though that was someone else playing. I was possessed!”

— Ringo Starr

55. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

56. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

57. “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

58. “I hate click tracks. A lot of people I know like to use click tracks. Like my son is perfect on the click tracks. It makes me to edgy.”

— Ringo Starr

59. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

60. “Beatles, women and children first!”

— Ringo Starr

61. “The main thing is not to be afraid of that, to get to a place where you’ll go gracefully, not screaming and kicking up a fuss.”

— Ringo Starr

62. “I’ve always felt that a space is as good as a fill.”

— Ringo Starr

63. “The White Album is important to me for different reasons. One – I had left the band on the White Album.”

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64. “I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.”

— Ringo Starr

65. “They paint you red before they sacrifice you. It’s a different religion from ours – I think.”

— Ringo Starr

66. “They said do what you want, because if we don’t like it, no-one will hear it.”

— Ringo Starr

67. “For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I’m pointing at you, and we’re having a laugh and getting it together.”

— Ringo Starr

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

— Ringo Starr

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

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70. “I made all my mistakes playing with people.”

— Ringo Starr

71. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

72. “The business is so driven by money, everyone’s trying to get it right.”

— Ringo Starr

73. “I’m nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I’m due on stage. But I’m all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand.”

— Ringo Starr

74. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

75. “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

76. “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

77. “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

78. “I am the best rock drummer on the planet.”

— Ringo Starr

79. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

80. “Ten years from now, it’ll all be the blues because that’s the only speed I’ll be able to play.”

— Ringo Starr

81. “I’m always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes me years, that’s why I’m so slow.”

— Ringo Starr

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

— Ringo Starr

83. “I met The Beatles while we were playing in Germany. We’d seen them in Liverpool, but they were a nothing little band then, just putting it together. In fact, they weren’t really a band at all.”

— Ringo Starr

84. “When you’re in a band – before it got to grunge – you dressed the bit. So yeah, I’ve always had an attitude with the clothes.”

— Ringo Starr

85. “I never take it as any real pressure. It’s like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, ‘Oh, I can do that dad.’ I said, ‘Now you’re on your own.’”

— Ringo Starr

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

— Ringo Starr

87. “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

88. “There’s a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually – we drank.”

— Ringo Starr

89. “I am, I definitely am. I’m really excited about that...”

— Ringo Starr

90. “If you could play, I’d play with you all night. But if I’m just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.”

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91. “I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, ’59 I got called Ringo.”

— Ringo Starr

92. “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.”

— Ringo Starr

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

— Ringo Starr

94. “I’ve never gone to the bedroom when I was starting out and practiced away.”

— Ringo Starr

95. “I think I’m more prolific in the songwriting.”

— Ringo Starr

96. “I know when I feel good when I play. There’s a closeness with musicians you only get from playing live, even in the studio it’s still playing live. For me, it’s what expands my soul.”

— Ringo Starr

97. “I’ve never had any big ideas about being the solo.”

— Ringo Starr

98. “I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.”

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99. “I’m a musician and I’m really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.”

— Ringo Starr

100. “I like playing with a live band and I’ve got my act and we’re fine.”

— Ringo Starr