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It is a great life, this life of music.

Ahmet Ertegun

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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Big Matter Next Recorded Song Write Writing
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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Business Career Consider Dearly Great Miss People Proud Record Singer
My first wife was a theater person.
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First Person Theater Wife
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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Country Defeat Everybody Fundamental History Hoping Right Somebody
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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Everyone Felt Ray Way
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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Apartment Brother Career Gone Good Heard Very Voice
Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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Another Celebrity Like One People
There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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Blood Live
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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Car First Hear Singing
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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Bottle Doctor Drink Occur Used Wine Year
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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Celebrity Close Contract Kind Lawyer Offered Singing
A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Biography Film Music Singer Voice
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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Brother Center Fame Greatest Musician People Provide
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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Cutting Day Father Prayed Relationship Religious Throughout Time
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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Black Blue Church Like Out People Singing
There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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Another Eric Great People Survive Surviving Talent West

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