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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.

Ahmet Ertegun

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
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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Big Matter Next Recorded Song Write Writing
My first wife was a theater person.
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First Person Theater Wife
The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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All Atlantic Group Time
The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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Condition Country Industrial Islamic Man Revolution Thing
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
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
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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Apartment Brother Career Gone Good Heard Very Voice
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
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Black Imitation Music Soul Two White
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Fan Jazz Path Quite
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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Black Blue Church Like Out People Singing
Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Delivery Feel Melody Music People Sensational
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
There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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Blood Live

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