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I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr! -- Adele
I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him. -- Don Henley
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan. -- Burton Cummings
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London. -- Ben Kingsley
Ringo Starr may not have much of a voice, but when he sang a song on a Beatle album, it had its own special charm. -- Jon Landau
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference. -- Greg Lake
My cousins and I used to play Beatle wives. We all wanted to be married to Paul, but John was O.K. too. None of us wanted Ringo. Or even worse, George. -- Ann Hood
I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time. -- Kurt Cobain
Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool. -- Christina Ricci
He's (Ringo Starr) not even the best drummer in the Beatles.... -- Paul McCartney
John was at his most relaxed with Ringo, who had him in stitches with his jokes. -- Cynthia Lennon
I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo. -- Ludacris
Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles -- John Lennon
I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John. -- Brian Wilson
It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo. If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different. -- David
Ringo is Ringo, that's all there is to it. And he's every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny and kind as he seems. He was quite simply the heart of the Beatles -- John Lennon
I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo. -- Ringo Starr
I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge. -- Ringo Starr
Ringo (Starr) isn't even the best drummer in The Beatles -- Paul McCartney
The title came rather early in one of Ringo's more tired and emotional moments. -- Richard Lester
Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles -- John Lennon
Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo. -- Paul Krassner
Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren't partyin'. -- Bill Hicks
Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music. -- Peter Tork
The greatest good fortune of my return to Cambridge in 1946 was that there, in the spring, I met Elizabeth Fay Ringo. We were married a few months later. -- James Tobin
I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea. -- George Harrison
The Beatles is over, but John, Paul, George, and Ringo...God knows what relationship they'll have in the future. I don't know. I still love those guys! Because they'll always be those people who were that part of my life. -- John Lennon
Where are Sam and Grace?" "Ringo left in his car a few hours ago. He must've taken Grace with him. I don't know where they went." "You didn't ask?" "We're not married" Cole said, and added, in a more humble tone, "yet". -- Maggie Stiefvater
You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones. -- Bill Wyman
I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo. I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, 'Let There Be Drums,' and I'd play along with it. -- Tipper Gore
Ringo had this habit of lighting up two cigarettes, one for Maureen at the same time that he lit his own. I remember thinking it was a loving thing to do and wishing John did it for me. But that would have been too obviously demonstrative, maybe, for John. -- Cynthia Lennon
Johnny Ringo to me was just the best antagonist that I've ever played, because I played him as a guy who has a death wish and had done everything that he wanted in life. As far as he was concerned, a gun fight was about as exciting as it was going to get. -- Michael Biehn
Ringo: 'I had no schooling before I joined The Beatles and no schooling after The Beatles. Life is a great education. -- Ringo Starr
It is inescapable that Ringo was the catalyst for the others. He certainly completed the jigsaw and The Beatles, with Ringo, became a magnet for the great camera artists of the world, a target for the jaded, lately hostile eyes of people who had hardly known that popular music existed. -- Brian Epstein
Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Albert Einstein, and John, Paul, George, and Ringo." He pauses, seeing the blank look on my face and groaning when he says, "Christ, Ever, the Beatles!" He shakes his head and laughs. "God, you make me feel old. -- Alyson Noel
We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out. -- John Lennon
I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance. -- Greg Lake
Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song. -- Benmont Tench

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