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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.

Ahmet Ertegun

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
At 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.
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Brave Cutting Father Foolhardy Head People Time
There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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Blood Live
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
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Black Imitation Music Soul Two White
It is a great life, this life of music.
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Great Life Music
Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Delivery Feel Melody Music People Sensational
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
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
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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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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All Atlantic Group Time
A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Biography Film Music Singer Voice
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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Cutting Day Father Prayed Relationship Religious Throughout Time
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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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
There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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