Ike & Tina Turner Quotes
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In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
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I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.
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I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.
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You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.
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I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.
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Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
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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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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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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 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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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 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.
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The choice that I made was from my best music, for the songs that I knew that the public liked. Then, when I recorded my new songs I found that my old material had not faded, it was still current, the music was good and the songs were great. I sat in my house and listened, got the chills, and I thought, how great is that? It hasn't dated, it hasn't gone anywhere, and it's great.
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Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some
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I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.