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
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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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The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who had the most influence on my playing. I saw him through a window playing piano and I thought it was unbelievable somebody could move their fingers that fast. And this is how I got interested in piano.
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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 ?
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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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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 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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There's talent there, but it's like different from the old school where I came from.
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I'm going to win some Grammies this year.
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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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I've got a combination of the blues mixed with hip-hop-all in one sound. I'm going to make a real big change in music, man.
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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.