My father was a very religious person. And he prayed five times a day. And he did that throughout his relationship with Ataturk.
AHMET ERTEGUNEverybody 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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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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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 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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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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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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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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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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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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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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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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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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