"In those days, man, in the '50s, black……" — Ike Turner
"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."
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22 Quotes by Ike Turner
Ike Turner has 22 quotes on this site.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been…
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Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But…
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They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi,…
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I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it,…
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I believe I was ahead of my time.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without…
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
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I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going…
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I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in…
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
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My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair.
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
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