My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
AHMET ERTEGUNAtaturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.
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I 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.
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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It is a great life, this life of music.
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My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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I 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.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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