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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.

Ahmet Ertegun

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Fan Jazz Path Quite
There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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Another Eric Great People Survive Surviving Talent West
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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Brother Center Fame Greatest Musician People Provide
Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Delivery Feel Melody Music People Sensational
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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Business Career Consider Dearly Great Miss People Proud Record Singer
A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Biography Film Music Singer Voice
I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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Celebrity Gotten Kind Lawyer Mess Other
There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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Blood Live
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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Big Matter Next Recorded Song Write Writing
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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Country Dignity Greatness Little Music Recognition
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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Bottle Doctor Drink Occur Used Wine Year
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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Car First Hear Singing
My first wife was a theater person.
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First Person Theater Wife
Ataturk 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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Country Defeat Everybody Fundamental History Hoping Right Somebody
Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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Another Celebrity Like One People
My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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Believe Father Great Man Powerful Strong Vision

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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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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