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.
AHMET ERTEGUNI’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.
More Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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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 became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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It is a great life, this life of music.
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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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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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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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My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk.
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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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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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My first wife was a theater person.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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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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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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