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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.

Ahmet Ertegun

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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Flop Greatest Hit Seven Six Think Thinking Write Writing
Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Delivery Feel Melody Music People Sensational
My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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Believe Father Great Man Powerful Strong Vision
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
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
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
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Fan Jazz Path Quite
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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Country Dignity Greatness Little Music Recognition
You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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Hit Magic Multimillion Seller Suddenly Working
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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Atlantic Come Everybody Great Hit Lady Remembered Winner Year Young
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
My first wife was a theater person.
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First Person Theater Wife
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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Magic Running Singer Start Studio Track
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Black Imitation Music Soul Two White
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
The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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All Atlantic Group Time

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