Ike Turner Quotes

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• 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…
• Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 believe I was ahead of my time.
• 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…
• 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,…
• In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
• I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
• 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…
• 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…
• I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
• I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
• 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 first…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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