Ringo Starr Quotes
"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
(Related: Time, Reason)
"I like Beethoven, especially the poems."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: 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."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: War, Bombs, Day, Houses, Play)
"I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Women)
"I'm not sleeping with all the women I appear with."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Women)
"People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: People)
"So this is America. They must be out of their minds."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: America)
"That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Alcohol, Drugs, Emotions, End)
"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."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Thought, Fantasy, Years)
"America: It's like Britain, only with buttons."
- Ringo Starr
"We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Music, Love, Laughter, Sense, Will)
"And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Home, Flowers, Saying)
"Well I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Time)
"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
(Related: First, Influence, May, Sound)
"Everything government touches turns to crap."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Government)
"And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album."
- Ringo Starr
"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
(Related: Germany, Play, Years)
"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."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Marriage)
"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."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: First, Independence, Writers, Writing)
"The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite."
- Ringo Starr
(Related: Favorite, Road)