Ike Turner Quotes

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.

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.

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.

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.

In those days, man, in the ’50s, black people in the South… We didn’t recognize contracts that much. And we didn’t recognize marriages that much, either.