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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.

Ahmet Ertegun

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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Believe Father Great Man Powerful Strong Vision
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
It is a great life, this life of music.
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Great Life Music
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
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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Car First Hear Singing
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
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Black Imitation Music Soul Two White
Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Delivery Feel Melody Music People Sensational
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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Celebrity Close Contract Kind Lawyer Offered Singing
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
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
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
Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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Another Celebrity Like One People
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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Cutting Day Father Prayed Relationship Religious Throughout Time
The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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All Atlantic Group Time
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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Brave Cutting Father Foolhardy Head People Time

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