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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.

Ahmet Ertegun

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
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
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
My first wife was a theater person.
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First Person Theater Wife
It is a great life, this life of music.
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Great Life Music
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
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Black Imitation Music Soul Two White
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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Celebrity Close Contract Kind Lawyer Offered Singing
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Fan Jazz Path Quite
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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Bottle Doctor Drink Occur Used Wine Year
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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Car First Hear Singing
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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Business Career Consider Dearly Great Miss People Proud Record Singer
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
If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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Continue Doctor Killed Stick Wine
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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Brave Cutting Father Foolhardy Head People Time
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

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