Tina Turner Quotes
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I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life
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You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.
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I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.
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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
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Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it What's love but a second hand emotion What's love got to do, got to do with it Who needs a heart When a heart can be broken
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Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.
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On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.
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I've never bothered about my color.
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Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.
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This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
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After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.
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I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
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My parents separated when I was younger
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I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
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I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.
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On board the new Ironsides, I had the Marine guard stationed at the after gun, thirty-five in number, and I think it was conceded that no gun of that heavy battery was worked more efficiently than the "Marine gun" as it was called.
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I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
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The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.
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You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.
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When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.
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I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.
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I am attracted to myths.
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As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
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My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.