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
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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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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.
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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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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 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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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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Little Richard did the intro to my book.
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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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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.
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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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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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Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.
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Where's the talent at? There was a lot of people back in those days-Elmore James, Howlin' Wolfe-a lot of people in these days.
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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 ?