Starr Quotes

Anybody who thinks there`s not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg.

When I`m playing a song I`ll often think about how another drummer might play it, and try to be that player in my performance of the song. Often I`ll think, `How would Keith Moon play this?` And I`ll don my Keith Moon hat. For another song I`ll think about John Bonham, or even on occasion Stewart Copeland, but more often than any other drummer I think about Ringo. `That`s All,` from Genesis, is a Ringo Starr drum part. `Through These Walls,` from Hello, I Must be Going, is a Ringo drum part.

Yeah, it`s like a built in thing. If I play a song to Ringo I don`t need to say to him, you know I want it to go like this, I just play it and he joins in. He`s got a great feel. Ringo`s like I sort of don`t practice much on the guitar I sort of pick up and play it when I need to and he`s the same, he never practices, he`s a very naughty boy. But he just gets his sticks and he just does it and it sounds just like Ringo and he can hold the rock steady all day long. (On Ringo Starr)

(Asked by a reporter if Ringo Starr was the best drummer in the world): In the world? He`s not even the best drummer in The Beatles!

John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

A couple of years earlier, I toured with Ringo Starr and played the House of Blues in Chicago. I remembered being struck by how (well-run) it was.

I`m no great fan of how Judge Starr conducted his investigation, but I didn`t think that was the time or the place to lodge those complaints.

Anyone who goes up against Kenneth Starr ought to be worried,

I must say I am not surprised that the report asks for President Clinton`s impeachment. I know Kenneth Starr and the man that I know wrote the conclusion on day one and spent the next five years filling it in.

Neither Ms. Raines, nor I, nor any member of her family will have any comment on any aspect of the investigation by Mr. Starr`s office.

This is simply an attempt by committee Democrats to clarify the factual record, where Mr. Starr was vague, evasive, forgetful or perhaps not altogether candid.

The timing is highly suspect, ... Starr investigated this. There is no evidence of anything new, and Starr decided that there is nothing to indict.