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 ERTEGUNEverybody 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.
More Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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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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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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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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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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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 songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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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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My first wife was a theater person.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn’t have the other $20,000.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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