Ringo Starr: Likeness

Ringo Starr is British musician, former member of the Beatles. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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

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

“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 Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 96

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

Ringo Starr book Octopus's Garden

"Octopus's Garden, from Abbey Road

“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.”

Interview in Viva magazine (1978)