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Ike Turner Quotes
Either accept people for what they are, or dont. So, in other words, man, if people dont know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think Im a good person. - Ike Turner Quotes
I always considered myself being an organizer. Im very good at teaching singers, Im very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist. - Ike Turner Quotes
I believe I was ahead of my time. - Ike Turner Quotes
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 of it I can put The Rolling Stones feeling, anyones feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man. - Ike Turner Quotes
I didnt know anything about publishing companies. I didnt know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know. - Ike Turner Quotes
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... cause Id never seen a train that fast in my life. - Ike Turner Quotes
I never did drink, but I went over on the other end, with cocaine. But anyway, God helped me through it, so today, Im healthy and fine. - Ike Turner Quotes
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 tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself. - Ike Turner Quotes
I still play Strat, I dont know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters. - Ike Turner Quotes
I think you have to advance with the times, you know. With hip-hop and rap and house music, they make loops and do stuff with loops. - Ike Turner Quotes
I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didnt even have a title, for I just did the song. - Ike Turner Quotes
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 listen to the blues today, its like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor. - Ike Turner Quotes
I was familiar with Stevie Ray Vaughan because I listened to him. He played a lot of copies off of different guys styles and stuff. - Ike Turner Quotes
Im just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I havent played a lot. - Ike Turner Quotes
Im not gonna try to defend, or undo whats been done. All I could say about whatevers been done, its been done, and its water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life. - Ike Turner Quotes
Im really shopping for a record deal, and I havent had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them. - Ike Turner Quotes
Im really thankful to God, man. Like now, Im really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie. - Ike Turner Quotes
Im very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great. - Ike Turner Quotes
In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. - Ike Turner Quotes
In those days, man, in the 50s, black people in the South... We didnt recognize contracts that much. And we didnt recognize marriages that much, either. - Ike Turner Quotes
Keith Richards uses a Telecaster, but he takes the sixth string off and tunes it to G. And thats what The Rolling Stones use all the time. - Ike Turner Quotes
Little Richard did the intro to my book. - Ike Turner Quotes
Most times, people have some acts that they really like. I mean, I dont have any in particular that I admire. I admire them all, you know. - Ike Turner Quotes
Spector is a good guy, but hes a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but hes unpredictable. Hes OK as long as he dont drink. - Ike Turner Quotes
The basic tracks I originally cut on a computer at my house, and then I over-dubbed it live. But I got the feeling I wanted here on the computer. - Ike Turner Quotes
They have all different names for music. I think the music Im going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after Im gone. - Ike Turner Quotes
They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but its 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 know. He would drink up all the money. - Ike Turner Quotes
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 Quotes
Theyll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through. - Ike Turner Quotes
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 have no regrets, man. Its just like God brought me through the drugs, I know hell bring me through this. - Ike Turner Quotes
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