61 Quotes by Ike Turner

I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it’s like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.

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.

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 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.

I still play Strat, I don’t know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

I’m using Fender Twin Reverbs and Fender Blues Devilles on stage.

I’m just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven’t played a lot.