Tina Turner about Buddhism & Rock'N'Roll (1986)

I have been told that you have converted to Buddhism... Now how did this religious development come apart? I've been practicing for ten years when I started it was just being introduced for two years so that was like 12 years ago that it started in California and there was a girl working at the recording studio that was talking about it and she told me about it and I decided to test it to see because my religion was Baptist which was given to me by my parents because they were basically from Baptist background but this was one I I made the decision because it's like becoming a different woman your views and things are different so I liked, how do you call, the scientific view for my life. It made sense to me it taught me something different that Baptism had not. So that was comfortable for me and I started practicing. They say that this tradition is the most important factionalized a part of my life it has become a part of my way of thinking a part of how I live and from that practice I'm becoming happy. How does it affects your daily life a way of thinking less stress blame like I think if I read this book I wouldn't become angry at this person because I have a different view of how the life goes now and what would obviously be happening with these two people's lives maybe there was something that had to be lived through so to speak it's a another entirely way of thinking and living from as the oriental view I mean you know it came from the Orient sometimes we just think our world is the only one and this is the only way of thinking but there are other people in the world that have other concepts of life and so this is there's a world that believed this way part of the world and it made sense to me so I started to practice you partook in Dan aid and live aid for Africa in 1980 five as this movement do you think altered the attitudes towards rock artists whether I thought for many years because I never did drugs I never drank and I never smoked and I've always thought that people put rock and roll people down simply because of the reputation of other people in other words it was like recommend people aren't intelligent they're not real people are good people or whatever you know and I think that that got the people to stand up and listen and say hey these are people that PAC halls football stadiums these are people that are successful and there are people that like what these people do and then when that happened and all of a sudden they said well maybe there is a possibility that these people are all right cruel but that's the world and that's the life I always knew that there were a lot of good people in rock'n'roll music I'm in rock-and-roll music I've been there forever there are a lot of wonderful people but they are not classical singers they're not they're rock and roll they're three music loving people you know and they live their life a bit more freely so I think that's why I was basically put down I think more and more now a lot of the people are coming out of themselves to make that kind of statement I certainly have by writing the book and saying well here I am I'm a rock and roll person you know I'm respectable you don't think so but this I think I am and I haven't anything that I feel is disrespectful so more and more people are getting a little bit of a different view because of that and people of the rock and roll people are feeling the more freer to to show that they do have the tenacity to make some statement

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Length: 3min 58sec (238 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 07 2016