I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
AHMET ERTEGUNI became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
AHMET ERTEGUNThere are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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 ERTEGUNLaura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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 ERTEGUNA singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
AHMET ERTEGUNI should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
AHMET ERTEGUNThere’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
AHMET ERTEGUNWhenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write – no matter how bad they are – get recorded.
AHMET ERTEGUNI did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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 ERTEGUNThe first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
AHMET ERTEGUNMy first wife was a theater person.
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.
AHMET ERTEGUNAnother one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
AHMET ERTEGUNMy father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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