Quotes by Ike Turner - Page 1

I believe I was ahead of my time.
Ike Turner / Musician
Believe
I Believe
My Time
Time Believe I Believe
Ahead
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I'm using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage.
Ike Turner / Musician
Stage
Twins
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I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
Ike Turner / Musician
Knows
Play
Stills
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
Ike Turner / Musician
Airports
China
Slang
Talking
Airport
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I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
Ike Turner / Musician
Fingers
Havens
Develop
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
Ike Turner / Musician
Japan
Missing
Riding
Life My Life Never
Miss
Fast
Trains
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Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.
Ike Turner / Musician
Drug
Mistake
School
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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.
Ike Turner / Musician
Unpredictable
Love Good Long
Spector
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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.
Ike Turner / Musician
Men
Black
Contracts
People
Man Black People
Marriages
Recognize
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
Ike Turner / Musician
Change
Different Names
Thinking
Years
Years And Years
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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.
Ike Turner / Musician
Alabama
Artist
Different
Mississippi
Talent
Texas
Artists
Hired
Scout
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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.
Ike Turner / Musician
Guy
Teaching
Two
Fast
Rehearsals
Wondered
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I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
Ike Turner / Musician
Bridges
No Regrets
Regret
Water
Bridge
Defend
Whatever
Gonna
Regrets
Undo
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
Ike Turner / Musician
Confidence
Smile
Men
Fighting
Losing
Norway
Prove
Tired
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Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.
Ike Turner / Musician
Men
Good Person
Injustice
People
Thinking
Good Man Me
Accept
In Other Words
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Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.
Ike Turner / Musician
Names
Rocks
White
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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.
Ike Turner / Musician
Thankful
Men
Comeback
Negative
Real
Thankful To God
Press
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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.
Ike Turner / Musician
Artist
Organizer
People
Singers
Staging
Teaching
Good Myself Me
Good Myself Always
Considered
Applied
Entertain
Entertain People
Included
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I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
Ike Turner / Musician
Men
Hip Hop
Real
Reggae
Rhythm
Rolling
Rolling Stones
Stones
Beat
Nobody
Drums
Feeling
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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.
Ike Turner / Musician
Kids
Life Story
Negativity
Stories
Complete
Life My Life Start
Sometime
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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.
Ike Turner / Musician
Boys
Drink
Paid
Used
Indians
Sonny
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
Ike Turner / Musician
Men
Light
No Regrets
Portraying
Regret
Walt
Disney
Regrets
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When I met her she was Anna Mae. I was the one who turned her into Tina Turner. I had to tell her how to dress, how to walk and how to talk on stage. I told her how to stand and how to look, the whole thing, man, I mean from the wig down.
Ike Turner / Musician
Men
Dresses
Mean
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I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.
Ike Turner / Musician
Girl
Add
Cutting
Flavor
Teamwork
Today Me Know
Album
Wanna
Original
Blues
Cut
Individually
Similar
Sounds
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When you think of blues, all you think about is crying guitar like B.B. King's guitar. You think about someone crying that their woman's gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with the blues? Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today?
Ike Turner / Musician
Kings
Guitar
Thinking
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The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who had the most influence on my playing. I saw him through a window playing piano and I thought it was unbelievable somebody could move their fingers that fast. And this is how I got interested in piano.
Ike Turner / Musician
Kids
Boys
Moving
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