My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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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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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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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 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 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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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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At a time when it was very brave to do because Ataturk was cutting off the heads of the imams. And people thought that that was foolhardy of my father.
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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.
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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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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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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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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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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