Ike Turner American Quotations

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.

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.

Little Richard did the intro to my book.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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'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.

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.

I didn't know anything about publishing companies. I didn't know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.