A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
AHMET ERTEGUNThere are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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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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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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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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It is a great life, this life of music.
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American 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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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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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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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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