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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

Ahmet Ertegun

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
It is a great life, this life of music.
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Great Life Music
I’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.
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Magic Running Singer Start Studio Track
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
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
People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches – like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin – were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
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Black Blue Church Like Out People Singing
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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Everyone Felt Ray Way
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
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
The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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Condition Country Industrial Islamic Man Revolution Thing
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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Flop Greatest Hit Seven Six Think Thinking Write Writing
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
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Fan Jazz Path Quite
Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Delivery Feel Melody Music People Sensational
A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Biography Film Music Singer Voice
The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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