Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
AHMET ERTEGUNAtaturk 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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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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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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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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It is a great life, this life of music.
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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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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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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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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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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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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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