61 Quotes by Ike Turner

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.

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.

Little Richard did the intro to my book.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.