The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
AHMET ERTEGUN
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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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 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 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 first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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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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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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