Quoted in The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock’s Great Drummers (Ringo) ↑

Recording solo projects

Recording solo projects with session players is never the same as recording with the band. It will never be the same for me to play with anyone else. That’s not because The Beatles were greater than anyone else, it’s just that it takes all those years to be able to play together. The telepathy and the magic isn’t there with session people. It was like there were five people playing in The Beatles — the four of us and the magic.

Ringo Starr, as quoted in The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock’s Great Drummers (Ringo)