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.
AHMET ERTEGUNI should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
More Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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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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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches – like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin – were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
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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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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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It is a great life, this life of music.
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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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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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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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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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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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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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