Ringo Starr
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Richard Starkey
Birthplace Liverpool South, Lancashire, England, U.K.
Birth Date July 7, 1940
Ethnicity Northwestern European
Nationality English
Career Singer, songwriter, drummer, actor
Color Season True Winter
Notes and Motifs
Drummer in The Beatles
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Starr: "When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer."
Starr: "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."
Starr: "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."
Starr: "I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable."
Starr: "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."
Starr: "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."
Starr: "I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy."
Starr: "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."
Starr: "First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money."
Starr: "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."
Starr: "I never studied anything, really. I didn't study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage."
Starr: "I mean, I was born the day war broke out, but I don't remember all the bombs though they did actually break up Liverpool, you know. I remember when I was a little older, there was big gaps in all the streets where houses used to be. We used to play over them."
Starr: "Everything government touches turns to crap."
Starr: "Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence."
Starr: "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."
Starr: "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."
Starr: "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."
Starr: "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."