Ike Turner Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.”

“Spector is a good guy, but he's a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he's unpredictable. He's OK as long as he don't drink.”

“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 got here... but it sure came up great.”

“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.”

“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.”