I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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 first wife was a theater person.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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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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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 should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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It is a great life, this life of music.
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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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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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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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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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