Tina turner quotes

What's love got to do with it?

There's a difference in how I feel when I'm travelling and when I'm sitting still. I've been doing it for such a long time it has become a part of my life. It gets a bit hectic depending on where I am, you know, like there's different parts of the world that's more stimulating than other parts.

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

My parents separated when I was younger

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.

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.

Physical strength in a woman - thats what I am.

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

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.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

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

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

On board the new Ironsides, I had the Marine guard stationed at the after gun, thirty-five in number, and I think it was conceded that no gun of that heavy battery was worked more efficiently than the "Marine gun" as it was called.

I find that the British audience listens and they accept the performer for its value, value as a singer, as a vocalist, value as a performer. You're only accepted if you're good.

I think there are people that still hold on that like Heavy Metal like a bit of what is going on now, but it isn't all of what they love and which goes on and it's the same with me... There's still a lot of Ray Charles, Sam Cooke songs that I still happen to like a lot, but then there are a lot of Madonna and... a lot of the female singers that I like as well, but it's like liking it with different emotions, you know.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

What is love but a second-hand emotion?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.

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.

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

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

I don't want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.

I've never bothered about my color.

I am attracted to myths.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

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

Sometimes we need help from a god

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

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

I know the difference between black magic and white magic.

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 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.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

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.

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.

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

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.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

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

People hold on to what they like. They discard what they don't...

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.

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

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

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

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

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

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.

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

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

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

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

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

Love is definitely a foundation, a spiritual connection that makes peace. Also it is the change in the world. People don't get so hung up on it any more as they used to. They feel that it can be secondary in some instances.

But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I remember music first artists second.

I want to breathe in the Spiritual.

I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

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 was a victim; I don't dwell on it.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

So when it came to role models, I looked at presidents' wives. Of course, you're talking about a farm girl who stood in the fields, dreaming, years ago, wishing she was that kind of person. But if I had been that kind of person, do you think I could sing with the emotions I do? You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart.

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

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.