I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
AHMET ERTEGUNMy father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come.
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If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write – no matter how bad they are – get recorded.
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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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It is a great life, this life of music.
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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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