Ike & Tina Turner Quotes
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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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In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
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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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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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Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
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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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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 want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.
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My parents separated when I was younger
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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 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've never bothered about my color.
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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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I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
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I was always attracted to science fiction movies
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I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.
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I am attracted to myths.
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Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some
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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 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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I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
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I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.