The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
AHMET ERTEGUNThe songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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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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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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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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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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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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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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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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 first wife was a theater person.
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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 should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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