Tina Turner Quotes
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In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
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I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.
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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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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.
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Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
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Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.
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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.
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First of all, I'm happy that I'm healthy.
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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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You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.
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My parents separated when I was younger
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I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
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As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.
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You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.
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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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The British people are extremely conventional. You don't always know what one is thinking or feeling because it is basically hidden. The British people basically let you see what they want you to see.
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In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.
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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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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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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
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In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious
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The choice that I made was from my best music, for the songs that I knew that the public liked. Then, when I recorded my new songs I found that my old material had not faded, it was still current, the music was good and the songs were great. I sat in my house and listened, got the chills, and I thought, how great is that? It hasn't dated, it hasn't gone anywhere, and it's great.
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People hold on to what they like. They discard what they don't...
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What is love but a second-hand emotion?
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You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.
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I am attracted to myths.
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What's love got to do with it?
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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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I'm pleased with my life, with the journey.
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I've never bothered about my color.
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