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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

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
There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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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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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Fan Jazz Path Quite
There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches – like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin – were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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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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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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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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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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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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If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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