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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.

Ahmet Ertegun

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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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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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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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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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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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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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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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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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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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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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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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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