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.
AHMET ERTEGUNI should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
More Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come.
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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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It is a great life, this life of music.
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his 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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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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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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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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