Top 75 Tina Turner Quotes
#1. If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.
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#2. You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.
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#3. Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way.
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#5. Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
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#6. 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.
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#8. I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.
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#9. 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.
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#10. This is what I want in heaven ... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
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#11. 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.
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#12. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.
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#13. You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.
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#14. My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.
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#15. First of all, I'm happy that I'm healthy.
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#16. In Buddhism there are words you can say ... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.
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#17. I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.
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#18. It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.
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#19. I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?'
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#20. It just feels like Erwin and me ... even at night I don't feel I have to look pretty in bed.
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#21. I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.
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#23. I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
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#24. You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.
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#25. Physical strength in a Woman... that's what I am
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#27. You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.
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#28. I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.
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#29. Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything ... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
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#30. 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.
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#31. In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.
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#32. As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
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#33. What is love but a second-hand emotion?
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#34. 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.
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#35. For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.
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#36. Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back.
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#37. You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry ... I get so emotional! I love champagne.
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#40. Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back.
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#41. In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
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#42. I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
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#43. In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.
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#44. As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you can't dance in a long dress.
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#45. People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.
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#46. I don't wanna lose you
And I always wanna feel this way
Cause everytime I'm with you I feel true love, true love.
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#47. I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.
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#48. Sometimes in a restaurant you'll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something ... a little fan is always a little bit nice.
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#49. Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.
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#50. I know the difference between black magic and white magic.
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#51. I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.
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#52. I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.
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#53. I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
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#54. I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.
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#55. On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.
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#57. I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.
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#58. My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.
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#59. I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.
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#60. I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.
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#61. I don't hate myself anymore. I used to hate my work, hated that sexy image, hated those pictures of me onstage, hated that big raunchy person. Onstage, I'm acting the whole time I'm there. As soon as I get out of those songs, I'm Tina again.
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#62. I was always attracted to science fiction movies.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
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#67. There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.
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#68. I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
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#69. My parents separated when I was younger.
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#70. My legacy is that I stayed on course ... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
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#71. I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
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#72. I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life.
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#73. Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it
What's love but a second hand emotion
What's love got to do, got to do with it
Who needs a heart
When a heart can be broken
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#74. 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.
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#75. But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.
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