Ike Turner Quotes
"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
(Related: Feeling, Man)
"I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life."
- Ike Turner
(Related: Life)
"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
(Related: Ability, Confidence, Fighting, Losing, Man, Trying)
"I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters."
- Ike Turner
(Related: Nothing, Play)
"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
(Related: Girls, Today)
"I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot."
- Ike Turner
(Related: Beginning)
"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
(Related: People, Artist, Being, Teaching)
"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
(Related: God, Negative, Man, Now, Press)
"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
(Related: People, Injustice, Man, Words)
"In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang."
- Ike Turner
(Related: American, Slang, Talking)
"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
(Related: People, Man)
"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
(Related: Love)
"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
(Related: Change, Music, Names, Style, Years)
"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
(Related: Money)
"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
(Related: Talent, Artists)
"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
(Related: Life, Negativity, Will)
"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
(Related: God, Disney, Drugs, Light, Man)
"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
(Related: Life, Water)
"I believe I was ahead of my time."
- Ike Turner
(Related: Time)