Top 70 Tina Turner Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The older you get, the more you realize it’s not what happens, but how you deal with it.”

— Tina Turner

2. “You must love and care for yourself, because that’s when the best comes out.”

— Tina Turner

3. “What’s love got to do with it?”

— Tina Turner

4. “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

5. “I believe that if you’ll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.”

— Tina Turner

6. “You take everything I’ve made the last 16 years. I’ll take my freedom.”

— Tina Turner

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

— Tina Turner

8. “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

9. “I believe in prayer and in strong belief.”

— Tina Turner

10. “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

11. “I don’t like to dwell on the past.”

— Tina Turner

12. “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

13. “I’m your private dancer, a dancer for money, I’ll do what you want me to do.”

— Tina Turner

14. “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

15. “First of all, I’m happy that I’m healthy.”

— Tina Turner

16. “Physical strength in a woman – thats what I am.”

— Tina Turner

17. “I don’t have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.”

— Tina Turner

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

— Tina Turner

19. “I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.”

— Tina Turner

20. “I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.”

— Tina Turner

21. “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

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

— Tina Turner

23. “I’m pleased with my life, with the journey.”

— Tina Turner

24. “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

25. “What is love but a second-hand emotion?”

— Tina Turner

26. “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

27. “I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I’m not old yet!”

— Tina Turner

28. “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

29. “It’s every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.”

— Tina Turner

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

— Tina Turner

31. “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

32. “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

33. “I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That’s entertainment for me.”

— Tina Turner

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

— Tina Turner

35. “I was always attracted to science fiction movies.”

— Tina Turner

36. “I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.”

— Tina Turner

37. “There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.”

— Tina Turner

38. “Sometimes we need help from a god.”

— Tina Turner

39. “I was a victim; I don’t dwell on it.”

— Tina Turner

40. “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

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

— Tina Turner

42. “I’m perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.”

— Tina Turner

43. “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

44. “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

45. “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

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

— Tina Turner

47. “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

48. “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

49. “I want to breathe in the Spiritual.”

— Tina Turner

50. “I am attracted to myths.”

— Tina Turner