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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.

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
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
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
Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Delivery Feel Melody Music People Sensational
It is a great life, this life of music.
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Great Life Music
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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Apartment Brother Career Gone Good Heard Very Voice
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 should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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Celebrity Gotten Kind Lawyer Mess Other
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
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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Bottle Doctor Drink Occur Used Wine Year
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
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
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
The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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Condition Country Industrial Islamic Man Revolution Thing
My first wife was a theater person.
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First Person Theater Wife

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