Ringo Starr Quotes

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look outside the box and observe.

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

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.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.

I just want to be an inspiration. I'm a rock star, I'm Future Hendrix.

It takes 300 years, it seems, for the great bands to get their due.

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a debt to them.

Everyone likes at least one Elvis song....Me, I love them all. He was, is and will remain the ultimate rock star.

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you.

I've never tried to achieve anything. I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

Before I left, I opened a lot of doors for a lot of people to play the blues.

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.

We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.

For us... you know, we're not The Beatles.

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Everything I listen to is influential in some way.

Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.

Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.