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