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.
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.
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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’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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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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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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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write – no matter how bad they are – get recorded.
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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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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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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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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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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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