Sir Richard Starkey MBE, better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who achieved international fame during the 1960s as the drummer for the Beatles.
Inspirational Sir Ringo Starr Quotes:
1.”Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can’t, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they’d say, ‘Oh, double-track that.’ I don’t know how you do that, because when I’m in a fill I’m sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can’t pure me the same, twice. So, that’s that.” Ringo Starr
2.“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
3.“I play weird. I’m always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We’re not guitarists.” Ringo Starr
4.“ 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.” Ringo Starr
5.“In 1989 I sort of got back into the music business and one of the reasons I got back in is [that] I put the first All-Stars band together. It’s actually progressed from that every other year, or every two years, I’ve put that together… more and more realizing that’s what I do.” Ringo Starr
6.“Everything government touches turn to crap.” Ringo Starr
7.“We [the band] had this open door policy – if you walked in the door, you were asked to play” Ringo Starr
8.“Let’s make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, ‘Peace and love.’ In the office, on the bus, wherever. It’s still peace and love for me, I’m a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, ‘Peace and love’. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.” Ringo Starr
9.“I think I’m more prolific in the song writing.” Ringo Starr
10.“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
11.“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.” Ringo Starr
12.“The Beatles were just four guys that loved each other. That’s all they’ll ever be.” Ringo Starr
13.“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
14.“Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with a cool clear soul.” Ringo Starr
15.“I’m a musician and I’m really blessed, because in my life if I can hold the sticks, I can play.” Ringo Starr
16.“I never studied anything, really.” Ringo Starr
17. “With God’s help, I’ve not had a drink in nine and a half years. That’s my whole story right there. And because of that, I’m doing this. I’m making records, I’m touring. I was so involved in just getting brain damaged, I wasn’t doing anything. I had great ideas, many notebooks filled with notes, some of them I can read and some of them I just can’t read, but I really didn’t do anything constructive, it was all just good ideas. Now I’m trying to lead a constructive life a day at a time.” Ringo Starr
18. “I’m not sleeping with all the women I appear with.” Ringo Starr
19. “I am truly grateful. I’m a grateful human being.” Ringo Starr
20. “Well, I’m getting happier all the time, which is very nice.” Ringo Starr
21. “I don’t particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.” Ringo Starr
22.“I think we should have an understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love have been my situation. You hear that in the song. I’m trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.” Ringo Starr
23.“That’s all drugs and alcohol do they cut off your emotions in the end.” Ringo Starr
24.“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
25.“Beatles, women and children first!” Ringo Starr