Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
AHMET ERTEGUNThe 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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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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I’ve been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging.
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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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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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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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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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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 first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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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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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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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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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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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