These Tina Turner quotes will inspire you. Tina Turner is an American-born Swiss singer and actress.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Tina Turner quotes, Tina Turner sayings, and Tina Turner proverbs.
Best Tina Turner Quotes
- “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
- “The older you get, the more you realize it’s not what happens, but how you deal with it.” ~ Tina Turner
- “You must love and care for yourself because that’s when the best comes out.” ~ Tina Turner
- “You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.” ~ Tina Turner
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“I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
- “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.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
- “We’re living in world, stars and dust Between heaven ‘n all that surrounds us We’re travelers 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” ~ Tina Turner
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“I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet!” ~ Tina Turner
- “Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry…I get so emotional! I love champagne.” ~ Tina Turner
- “This is what I want in heaven… words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I’m pleased with my life, with the journey.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
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“You take everything I’ve made the last 16 years. I’ll take my freedom.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
- “Physical strength in a woman – that’s what I am.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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” ~ Tina Turner , Tina Turner quotes on love - “I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.” ~ Tina Turner
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“I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That’s entertainment for me.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
- “People hold on to what they like. They discard what they don’t…” ~ Tina Turner
- “First of all, I’m happy that I’m healthy.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
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“I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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.” ~ Tina Turner
- “For me, the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I know the difference between black magic and white magic.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I want to breathe in the Spiritual.” ~ Tina Turner
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“I’m your private dancer, a dancer for money, I’ll do what you want me to do.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
- “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.” ~ Tina Turner
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“I was a victim; I don’t dwell on it.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I don’t like to dwell on the past.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
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“What’s love got to do with it?” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
- “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.” ~ Tina Turner
- “There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.” ~ Tina Turner
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“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
- “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.” ~ Tina Turner
- “In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.” ~ Tina Turner
- “In Buddhism, there are words you can say… as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious” ~ Tina Turner
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“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
- “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.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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 anymore as they used to. They feel that it can be secondary in some instances.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I remember music first artists second.” ~ Tina Turner
- “There’s a difference in how I feel when I’m traveling 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.” ~ Tina Turner
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“Sometimes we need help from a god” ~ Tina Turner
- “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
- “It just feels like Erwin and me… even at night I don’t feel I have to look pretty in bed.” ~ Tina Turner
- “It’s every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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.” ~ Tina Turner
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“As a child my grandmother used to tell us stories about the dead and the mystical.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I grew up in the south, poor – on rock, dirt roads.” ~ Tina Turner
- “My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.” ~ Tina Turner
- “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.” ~ Tina Turner
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“I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I’ve never bothered about my color.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I believe in prayer and in strong belief.” ~ Tina Turner
- “I was always attracted to science fiction movies” ~ Tina Turner
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“Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some” ~ Tina Turner
- “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.” ~ Tina Turner
- “What is love but a second-hand emotion?” ~ Tina Turner
