There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
AHMET ERTEGUNI became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
More Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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It is a great life, this life of music.
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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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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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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 songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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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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