Ringo Starr Quotes

Well I'm getting happier all the time, which is very nice.
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.
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.
Drumming is my middle name.
First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.
For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.
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.
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.
I don't talk about myself in the third person, and I laugh at people who do.
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 get by with a little help from my friends.
I love the modern technology now.
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
I think the most exciting thing is that you expect people our age to know the music, but actually 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.
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.
I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.
If you made a record, I'd probably pick out tracks that I like and download that. That's just how it is.
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'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.
I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band.
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