Tina Turner Quotes

They're still in good shape, but I'm not flashing them anymore. I'm an old lady. I leave all the flesh to the kids.

You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.

There's been (if you sort of scan the magazines) announcements of different performers that has come and tried to get the British audience to go crazy, simply by them entering the stage because they had a hit record. It just doesn't happen. That happens in America.

After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the hottest then. His music charged me. I was never attracted to him, but I wanted to sing with his band.

I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

Ike's problem was that he was a musician that always wanted to be a star; and was a star, locally, but never internationally... so he then changed the name to Ike and changed my name to Tina because if I ran away, Tina was his name. It was patented as you call it.

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.

Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.

It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.

I want to breathe in the Spiritual.

I remember music first artists second.

It just feels like Erwin and me... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.

On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.

I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

I've never bothered about my color.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.

First of all, I'm happy that I'm healthy.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the love we give, is all that will endure Just like a rose after the rain Something beautiful remains Tears will leave no stains Time will ease the pain For every life that fades Something beautiful remains

When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who starched and ironed dresses. I had to sit more than I played. Oh, I was miserable. I liked being out with the animals. I'd come in the house with my hair pulled out, sash off the dress, dirty as heck. I was always getting spanked.