Top 100 Quotes About Tina Turner

#1. I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.

Flula Borg

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#2. Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

Elton John

#3. I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends, or in the shower, because no one else was around. Or in college. I'd go to karaoke bars and sing Tina Turner songs in the original key.

John Lloyd Young

#4. And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.

Bryan Adams

#5. That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.

Vince Clarke

#6. I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on the same stage, and it's going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it's going to be a video.

Brandy Norwood

#7. I've always liked Tina Turner.

Michael Douglas

#8. I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

Rachel Tucker

#9. Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

Rita Ora

#10. I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

Juliette Lewis

#11. I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.

Burning Spear

#12. I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

Jennifer Lopez

#13. When I met her she was Anna Mae. I was the one who turned her into Tina Turner. I had to tell her how to dress, how to walk and how to talk on stage. I told her how to stand and how to look, the whole thing, man, I mean from the wig down.

Ike Turner

#14. The contemporary music of Tina Turner might make you feel powerful and energized. South African music provides a mind-boggling choice of styles from folk tunes to jive. Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony has the magical ability to transport you to a country scene and trap you in a driving rain storm.

Jason Harvey

#15. James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together.

Vonda Shepard

#16. I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

Bonnie Tyler

#17. I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.

Christian Louboutin

#18. I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.

Winnie Holzman

#19. That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

Little Richard

#20. Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

Deborah Cox

#21. And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.

Bryan Adams

#22. I've worked with lots of musicians - like Tina Turner - and I love when they go in front of the fitting mirror and do their thing, pose, dance. I love that moment!

L'Wren Scott

#23. She's so hairy - when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit.

Joan Rivers

#24. I saw Tina Turner do 'Proud Mary' on TV, and it was so electrifying and such a unique experience. I remember crying out of excitement, and I knew that I wanted to be a performer and make people feel excited and moved, and that's why I gravitated towards it.

Bonnie McKee

#25. I was with Tina Turner when she first saw Janis Joplin, and she said to Janis, 'Honey, you can't continue to sing like that, or you'll have no voice,' and Janis' response was just to laugh and take a swig on her Southern Comfort.

Michael Wadleigh

#26. When we talk about my music, it's a cross between Tina Turner, Alanis Morrisette, and Diana Ross. It's the glamour and the showiness of Diana Ross; the ferociousness and pain of Tina Turner; and the vocals of Alanis.

Wynter Gordon

#27. If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.

Jeff Beck

#28. Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.

Beyonce Knowles

#29. Today, one year after their divorce, Pamela and Tommy Lee announced they're getting back together. You know what that means? There's still hope for Ike and Tina Turner.

Jay Leno

#30. I thought, "why don't we be innovative and create something nobody had ever done before?" It was a huge hit and we immediately did a sequel with Chris Rock, Morgan Freeman, Tina Turner and Maya Angelou.

Henry Louis Gates

#31. 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.

Tina Turner

#32. You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

Tina Turner

#33. 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.

Tina Turner

#34. I am attracted to myths.

Tina Turner

#35. Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

Tina Turner

#36. 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.

Tina Turner

#37. Sometimes we need help from a god.

Tina Turner

#38. I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

Tina Turner

#39. I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.

Flula Borg

#40. 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.

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

#42. 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.

Tina Turner

#43. Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

Elton John

#44. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

#46. My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

#48. In Buddhism there are words you can say ... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

#51. I always had long legs. When I was young, I used to think, 'Why do I look like a little pony?'

Tina Turner

#52. I did have a falsetto, but I only used it when I was joking around with friends or to annoy my girlfriends, or in the shower, because no one else was around. Or in college. I'd go to karaoke bars and sing Tina Turner songs in the original key.

John Lloyd Young

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

Tina Turner

#54. And I never forgot this as long as I've ever performed, no matter how crap I had felt before I went on stage. I just remember Tina Turner going up there, singing her heart out for everybody, and meantime she had a 102-degree fever and she was feeling terrible.

Bryan Adams

#55. That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.

Vince Clarke

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

Tina Turner

#57. I don't like to dwell on the past.

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

#60. I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on the same stage, and it's going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it's going to be a video.

Brandy Norwood

#61. Physical strength in a Woman... that's what I am

Tina Turner

#62. I've never bothered about my color.

Tina Turner

#63. You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.

Tina Turner

#64. 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.

Tina Turner

#65. 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.

Tina Turner

#66. 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.

Tina Turner

#67. In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

Tina Turner

#68. I've always liked Tina Turner.

Michael Douglas

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

Tina Turner

#70. What is love but a second-hand emotion?

Tina Turner

#71. I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

Rachel Tucker

#72. 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.

Tina Turner

#73. Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

Rita Ora

#74. I like people like Tina Turner, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, and Stevie Nicks; you only hear that person in their voice, they sound like nobody else.

Juliette Lewis

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

Tina Turner

#76. I usually listen to various kind of singers. Curtis Mayfield was my favorite. James Brown, Tina Turner, queen of soul, I started to get that musical essence from that time before I even do my first song.

Burning Spear

#77. I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.

Jennifer Lopez

#78. Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back.

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

#80. 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.

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

#82. 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.

Tina Turner

#83. In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

Tina Turner

#84. I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

Tina Turner

#85. In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

Tina Turner

#86. 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.

Tina Turner

#87. Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#88. When I met her she was Anna Mae. I was the one who turned her into Tina Turner. I had to tell her how to dress, how to walk and how to talk on stage. I told her how to stand and how to look, the whole thing, man, I mean from the wig down.

Ike Turner

#89. 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.

Tina Turner

#90. 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.

Tina Turner

#91. I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

Tina Turner

#92. The contemporary music of Tina Turner might make you feel powerful and energized. South African music provides a mind-boggling choice of styles from folk tunes to jive. Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony has the magical ability to transport you to a country scene and trap you in a driving rain storm.

Jason Harvey

#93. 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.

Tina Turner

#94. James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together.

Vonda Shepard

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

Tina Turner

#96. I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

Tina Turner

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

Tina Turner

#98. I love Tina Turner. I'm one of Tina Turner's biggest fans. Tina Turner was a big influence on me to become a singer. A role model and in a way she gave me back my confidence in choosing my material.

Bonnie Tyler

#99. I really have not so much sympathy. If Tina Turner and Prince's back-up band can perform on stage in them for three hours, you can't tell me they are impossible to walk in. High heels are pleasure with pain. If you can't walk in them, don't wear them.

Christian Louboutin

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

Tina Turner

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