Tina Turner

Singer

1939-11-26 – 2023-05-24

American-born singer known for a career spanning rock, pop, and soul. She achieved global success as a solo artist after the Ike & Tina Turner era.

Books by Tina Turner

I, Tina
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My love story
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Happiness Becomes You
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Quotes by Tina Turner

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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I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
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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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I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
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There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.
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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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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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This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
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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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In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.
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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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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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Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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What's love got to do with it?
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