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.
AHMET ERTEGUNAt 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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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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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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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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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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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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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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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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It is a great life, this life of music.
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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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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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