Ike Turner Quotes

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.

I'd watched every episode of 'True Blood' from the very beginning. The show's characters were in my blood, so when I started, I was really prepared. I made sure I wasn't the new guy asking stupid questions on his first day.

Especially with music, people want confidence.

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.

I can play any instrument if you give me 20 minutes.

I would love to be able to program myself to pick up any instrument and to be able to play it very, very well, and to be able to read music and dance as well. I'm very uncoordinated, and I'd love to be able to bust a really great move.

My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.

I know I'm a strong performer. I'm not an evolved musician.

I'm a real band guy, you know? I'm really good at certain things, and the band stuff is one of them.

I'm not a huge practicer, which is probably not a good thing because my band definitely needs to practice.

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.

Listen, if you said to me, 'Adam Shankman is going to direct you in a musical and you have six months to learn how to tap,' I'd practice till I was blue in the face. I would do it because I'm so headstrong and think I can do anything. But just to show up and sing a little ditty, no.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

Within reasonable limits, a professional player should keep busy at music.

I was always good at music.

I like to believe that I play bass like Dusty Hill, and that's something nobody else can do as well as me. I'm the best Dusty Hill I know.

You have a natural groove inside of you, but the more you practise, the more comfortable you will be with your instrument.