There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
AHMET ERTEGUNThere’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
AHMET ERTEGUNI came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn’t have the other $20,000.
AHMET ERTEGUNThe 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.
AHMET ERTEGUNMy father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
AHMET ERTEGUNI used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it’d kill me.
AHMET ERTEGUNTheres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
AHMET ERTEGUNIt is a great life, this life of music.
AHMET ERTEGUNLaura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
AHMET ERTEGUNAnother one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
AHMET ERTEGUNI’ve been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging.
AHMET ERTEGUNIf I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
AHMET ERTEGUNMy first wife was a theater person.
AHMET ERTEGUNA singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
AHMET ERTEGUNI consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.
AHMET ERTEGUNAt a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
AHMET ERTEGUNThe all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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