Ike Turner Quotes

Piano's really my instrument ,and that's what they'll see when I get to Tokyo this time. They never saw me play the piano.

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I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didn't even have a title, for I just did the song.

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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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Most times, people have some acts that they really like. I mean, I don't have any in particular that I admire. I admire them all, you know.

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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 to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

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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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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.

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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 have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.

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Like rapping man, you've got to be so super-creative to come out with the stuff that's happening in your head.

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Keith Richards uses a Telecaster, but he takes the sixth string off and tunes it to G. And that's what The Rolling Stones use all the time.

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I never did drink, but I went over on the other end, with cocaine. But anyway, God helped me through it, so today, I'm healthy and fine.

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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, it's like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

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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.

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Kids today will never hear the Fats Domino kind of music, the Muddy Waters kind of music, all they here is like B.B. King, they don't hear Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles.

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Now as far as records today, like hip-hop and rap-house, whatever it is-the thing about it is, they make a lot of loops where they don't have to play about four bars or something ,and everything's just over and over and they just got to rap on top of it.

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Little Richard did the intro to my book.

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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 never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

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When you get my age, and like James Brown... You know, you do a little bit and let them do it. 'cause they have the wind, the air to keep it going.

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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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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 of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

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I'm really shopping for a record deal, and I haven't had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them.

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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 the blues Why can't it have a hip-hop beat to which you can do the dances of today

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We're having time to give the younger generation today inspiration. Regardless of the obstacles that you have to overcome, how you can make it

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I didn't know anything about publishing companies. I didn't know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.

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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 negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

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