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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Ahmet Ertegun

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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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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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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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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It is a great life, this life of music.
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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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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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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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