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.
AHMET ERTEGUNWhenever 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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My first wife was a theater person.
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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 should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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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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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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I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi’s apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense.
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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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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