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 gone. And how bad life is and all that. Why can't it be something happy with… — 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
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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
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… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
