Ike Turner Quotes


28 quotes:

"A lot of people believe that the movie is the true story, that Tina did. I don't wanna debate on Ike & Tina, but I have to say this one thing... That movie was the biggest lie, and even Tina said that it's a lie. And she don't like the movie. But she started put gas on the fire by supporting it."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: Debate Quotes
"In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes Teaching Quotes
"Little Richard did the intro to my book."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"I believe I was ahead of my time."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes Slang Quotes
"They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes Teaching Quotes
"I didn't know anything about publishing companies. I didn't know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"I'm really shopping for a record deal, and I haven't had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes Talent Quotes
"Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didn't even have a title, for I just did the song."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"Most times, people have some acts that they really like. I mean, I don't have any in particular that I admire. I admire them all, you know."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"The basic tracks I originally cut on a computer at my house, and then I over-dubbed it live. But I got the feeling I wanted here on the computer."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"I think you have to advance with the times, you know. With hip-hop and rap and house music, they make loops and do stuff with loops."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes
"Keith Richards uses a Telecaster, but he takes the sixth string off and tunes it to G. And that's what The Rolling Stones use all the time."
Author: Turner Quotes Category: American Musician Quotes

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