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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

Ahmet Ertegun

There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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Blood Live
The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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All Atlantic Group Time
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
It is a great life, this life of music.
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Great Life Music
My first wife was a theater person.
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First Person Theater Wife
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
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Black Imitation Music Soul Two White
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
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 became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Fan Jazz Path Quite
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
If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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Continue Doctor Killed Stick Wine
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
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
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

I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

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