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.
AHMET ERTEGUNMy 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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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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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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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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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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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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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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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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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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If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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