Ike Turner
Ike Turner
Izear Luster "Ike" Turner, Jr.was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. An early pioneer of fifties rock and roll, he is most popularly known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his then-wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth5 November 1931
CityClarksdale, MS
CountryUnited States of America
Ike Turner quotes about
according cut records wherever
I don't really cut records according to what's pop, what's R&B and what's country, or what. I just record what I feel, wherever I am, when you're like that.
american-musician kept publishing writers
I didn't know anything about publishing companies. I didn't know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.
american-musician chance companies far few pressed record shopping
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.
win
I'm going to win some Grammies this year.
guitar joe louis side together
I put together one song, Bonnie Raitt put together a song. Ah, what's his name, the other guitar player? Gatemouth Brown! Yeah, he did a side on Joe Louis Walker.
american-musician basic computer cut feeling originally tracks
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.
american-musician fast songs
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.
came school talent
There's talent there, but it's like different from the old school where I came from.
believe biggest debate fire gas ike people supporting tina true wanna
A lot of people believe that the movie is the true story, that Tina did. I don't wanna debate on Ike & Tina, but I have to say this one thing... That movie was the biggest lie, and even Tina said that it's a lie. And she don't like the movie. But she started put gas on the fire by supporting it.
bars far four loops rap records top whatever
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.
regret bridges water
I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
fingers havens
I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
airports talking china
In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
men people black
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.