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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
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,… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
