How They Got Over (2018)

Ira Tucker: Self - Dixie Hummingbirds

Quotes 

• Ira Tucker : I was 14. Said to my mother, I said, "You know I've been tellin' you I'd like to make some more money to try to help to take care of you, you know. These Hummingbirds want me to go with them. You have a problem with me going?" I went and told the fellas, "Look, I'm not goin' anywhere. My mother's in there cryin'." So, she said, she came and said, "Oh yes, he is. He's goin'. God is gonna take care of me. Now, when you get to the door, don't look back." And one of the hardest - things that I've ever tried to do - in my *life* - was tryin' to keep from lookin' back.

• Ira Tucker : He cursed me, man. He called me a broke whatchamacallit and said, "You can get some money now." And I said, "Look, man, I came in here singin' gospel. When I go outta here, I'm gonna be singin' gospel."

• Ira Tucker : My grandfather raised me. He said to me, "One day, if you keep on singin', you'll be all down in Florida singin'." Man, when I got to Gainesville, Florida, we stopped at a red light and I got out and grabbed around a tree and wet that tree of cryin'. My grandfather had never been out of the *county* of where he lived. Never had been anywhere. But, yet he could tell me, "be all down in Florida singin'." That gave me strength to - to bust through.