I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
AHMET ERTEGUNThere are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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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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Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come.
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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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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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If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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It is a great life, this life of music.
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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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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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