Frasi di Ringo Starr

“Woody Allen. Mi piace perché è più brutto di me.”

“Ero un grande ammiratore di John. Ho avuto sempre la sensazione che avesse un grande cuore e che non fosse cinico come si pensava. Aveva il cuore più grande di tutti ed era il più svelto. Era dentro e fuori. Mentre noi stavamo ancora entrando, lui era già fuori e proseguiva.”

“A non andare d'accordo, dopo mezz'ora che stanno insieme, sono Paul e Lennon. O per meglio dire, non legano se si incomincia a parlare di canzoni. Sono troppo diversi per mentalità.”

“Il vero musicista molto spesso è negro. Dei Frank Sinatra non me ne importa niente. Mi importano i bianchi che hanno imparato il suono dai negri, il suono e il canto e i temi degli outsiders, degli esclusi.”

“Il mondo è pieno di gente che crede ai dischi volanti. Anche nella compassata Inghilterra non mancano i «visionari spaziali.»”

“Oggi, in un mondo sovrappopolato, intasato, sull'orlo dell'inabitabilità, se proprio vuoi andartene lontano, che direzione si può prendere? Lo spazio, non le pare?”

“Quando si passano i trent'anni, e si ha la sensazione d'aver già avuto tutto dalla vita, ci si sente come paralizzati.”

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

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

“"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”

“Last night I had a peace dream…”

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

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

“Everything government touches turns to crap.”

“Got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues
And you know it don't come easy.”

“Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education.”

“First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things…. But I didn't play drums to make money. I played drums because I loved them…. My soul is that of a drummer…. It came to where I had to make a decision — I was going to be a drummer. Everything else goes now. I play drums. It was a conscious moment in my life when I said the rest of things were getting in the way. I didn't do it to be come rich and famous, I did it because it was the love of my life.”

“I got blisters on my fingers!”

“All I do is scream your name.”

“I used to wish that I could write songs, like the others—and I've tried, but I just can't. I can get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune the others always say it sounds like such-a-thing, and when they point it out, I see what they mean.”

“The world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles.”

“The song ‘With a Little Help From My Friends’ was written specifically for me, but they had one line that I wouldn’t sing. It was ‘What would you do if I sang out of tune? Would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?’ I said, ‘There’s not a chance in hell am I going to sing this line,’ because we still had lots of really deep memories of the kids throwing jelly beans and toys on stage; and I thought that that if we ever did get out there again, I was not going to be bombarded with tomatoes.”

“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 believe Paul's got everything he ever had, but I lost a lot of mine.”

“I'd Like to be
Under the sea
In an octopus's garden with you.”

“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. And some of them I even thought of. You know, I think this is the third time I've used "It Don't Come Easy." I used that on "Time Takes Time," I think, as well. So it's just a great line that, you know, expresses so much. So I just put it in again.”

“When we first started, they basically went John and Paul's way because they were the writers and they would say, "This is the song," and I would play as creatively as I could. Sometimes I would have three people telling me how to do it. They were saying play it this like on that track. I'm saying, "For Christ's sake, there are two drummers there." They could never hear that, you know. You'd have to have four arms to do half the stuff they wanted me to do.”

“Drumming is my middle name.”

“The only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.”