"They would come down in Mississippi, they hired……" — Ike Turner
"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
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
22 Quotes by Ike Turner
Ike Turner has 22 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been…
-
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…
-
I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it,…
-
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…
-
In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we…
-
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…
-
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in…
-
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
See all 22 quotes by Ike Turner »
More Alabama Quotes
This quote is filed under Alabama Quotes,
one of 139 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
As far as heroes thorough the years, I'd say definitely Alabama and Randy Owen, Conway Twitty was a big influence…
— Luke Bryan
-
I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you…
— Bear Bryant
-
I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were…
— Bear Bryant
-
Alabama - they were the masters of that. They could come out with 'Mountain Music' or 'Tennessee River' and then…
— Jason Aldean
-
The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running,…
— Jason Aldean
-
My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
— Fred Allen
-
As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern…
— John Henrik Clarke
-
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first…
— John Henrik Clarke
-
I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.
— Richard Dawkins
-
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
-
An Atheist in Alabama is one that doesn't believe in Bear Bryant.
— Unknown Author
-
It's ironic that the Bible belt is the killing belt - Texas, Florida, Alabama, Virginia, and so forth, Georgia. Chief…
— Joseph Lowery
See all 139 Alabama Quotes »