There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
AHMET ERTEGUNI should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
More Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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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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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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There 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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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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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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It is a great life, this life of music.
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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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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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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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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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