Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE, known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He occasionally sang lead vocals, usually for one song on an album, including "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Yellow Submarine" and their cover of "Act Naturally". He also wrote the Beatles' songs "Don't Pass Me By" and "Octopus's Garden", and is credited as a co-writer of others, including "What Goes On" and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth7 July 1940
CityLiverpool, England
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.
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.
I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.
Take a dose of rock and roll, and wash it down with cool clear soul.
I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.
Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.
The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.
You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.
When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
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.
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'
I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.