Tina Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, is a legendary American-born Swiss singer, songwriter, and actress, often hailed as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” She gained fame in the 1960s as part of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, with hits like “River Deep – Mountain High” and “Proud Mary.” After a solo career breakthrough in the 1980s with the album “Private Dancer,” Turner became an international icon with songs such as “What’s Love Got to Do with It” and “Better Be Good to Me.” Known for her powerful voice and dynamic stage presence, she has won numerous awards, including Grammys, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Turner’s enduring influence on music and her empowering persona solidify her status as one of the greatest performers in music history.
Tina Turner Quotes
1. “You must love and care for yourself, because that’s when the best comes out.”
― Tina Turner
2. “What’s love got to do with it?”
― Tina Turner
3. “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.”
― Tina Turner
4. “I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.”
― Tina Turner
5. “You take everything I’ve made the last 16 years. I’ll take my freedom.”
― Tina Turner
6. “You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.”
― Tina Turner
7. “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
8. “I believe in prayer and in strong belief.”
― Tina Turner
9. “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
10. “I don’t like to dwell on the past.”
― Tina Turner
11. “And you know what I say to people who ask, ‘What do you do when all the odds are against you?’ I say, ‘You keep going. You just don’t stop. No matter, if there’s one slap to the face, turn the other cheek. And the hurt you’re feeling? You can’t think about what’s being done to you now, or what has been done to you in the past. You just have to keep going.'”
― Tina Turner
12. “I’m your private dancer, a dancer for money, I’ll do what you want me to do.”
― Tina Turner
13. “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
14. “Physical strength in a woman – that’s what I am.”
― Tina Turner
15. “First of all, I’m happy that I’m healthy.”
― Tina Turner
16. “I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.”
― Tina Turner
17. “For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.”
― Tina Turner
18. “I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.”
― Tina Turner
19. “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.”
― Tina Turner
20. “In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.”
― Tina Turner
21. “I’m pleased with my life, with the journey.”
― Tina Turner
22. “Jazz music itself is an example of changing poison into medicine. African Americans created jazz, a great medicine for people’s hearts, out of the poisonous experience of slavery. Jazz developed from African culture, gospel music, and blues to lift up the spirits of oppressed people, and now it brings joy to people the world over.”
― Tina Turner
23. “What is love but a second-hand emotion?”
― Tina Turner
24. “I never felt loved, so I decided it wasn’t important. Not to me. I think I put up a kind of a shield against it. I told myself, ‘If you don’t care about me, that’s okay, I’ll go on. If you don’t love me, I’ll go on.’ ‘I’ll go on’ was my mantra before I ever knew what a mantra was.”
― Tina Turner
25. “I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet!”
― Tina Turner
26. “If you are unhappy with anything – you mother, you father, your husband, your wife, your job, your boss, your car – whatever is being you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”
― Tina Turner
27. “It’s every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.”
― Tina Turner
28. “I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.”
― Tina Turner
29. “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
30. “I need that on stage. I need a burst of life.That’s entertainment for me.”
― Tina Turner
31. “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
32. “As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.”
― Tina Turner
33. “I was always attracted to science fiction movies.”
― Tina Turner
34. “Sometimes we need help from a god.”
― Tina Turner
35. “I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.”
― Tina Turner
36. “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.”
― Tina Turner
37. “Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.”
― Tina Turner
38. “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
39. “I was a victim; I don’t dwell on it.”
― Tina Turner
40. “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
41. “I’m perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.”
― Tina Turner
42. “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
43. “My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.”
― Tina Turner
44. “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.”
― Tina Turner
45. “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
46. “But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way.”
― Tina Turner
47. “There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.”
― Tina Turner
48. “I want to breathe in the Spiritual.”
― Tina Turner
49. “I am attracted to myths.”
― Tina Turner
50. “I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.”
― Tina Turner
51. “In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.”
― Tina Turner
52. “I grew up in the south, poor – on rock, dirt roads.”
― Tina Turner
53. “On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.”
― Tina Turner
54. “I’ve never bothered about my color.”
― Tina Turner
55. “Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.”
― Tina Turner
56. “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.”
― Tina Turner
57. “You wouldn’t believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.”
― Tina Turner
58. “My parents separated when I was younger.”
― Tina Turner
59. “The obstacles we face hold the lessons we must learn to make our dreams come true.”
― Tina Turner
60. “I don’t want to act just to be on the screen doing anything and looking any kind of way.”
― Tina Turner
61 . “At every moment, we always have a choice, even if it feels as if we don’t. Sometimes that choice may simply be to think a more positive thought.”
― Tina Turner
62. “Rising from the ashes of my earlier life, I learned that our thoughts, words, and deeds are unified through spiritual practice. They are made whole within us. And when our thoughts, words, and deeds are aligned with our most positive intentions, magic happens.”
― Tina Turner
63. “I’m often reminded of Nichiren’s words: “Life itself is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million coins of gold.”
― Tina Turner
64. “As German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse said, the more we mature, the younger we grow. What a beautiful sentiment!”
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