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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 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.


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


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


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


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


I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.


I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.


I am attracted to myths.


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.


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


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.


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.


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


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.


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


In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.


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


I know the difference between black magic and white magic.


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.