There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
AHMET ERTEGUNI’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.
More Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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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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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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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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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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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 should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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