There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
AHMET ERTEGUNI should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
More Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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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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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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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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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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My first wife was a theater person.
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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 main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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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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If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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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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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi’s apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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