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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.

Ahmet Ertegun

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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Everyone Felt Ray Way
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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Cutting Day Father Prayed Relationship Religious Throughout Time
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
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
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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Bottle Doctor Drink Occur Used Wine Year
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
There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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Blood Live
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
It is a great life, this life of music.
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Great Life Music
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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Fan Jazz Path Quite
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
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
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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Magic Running Singer Start Studio Track
I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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Celebrity Gotten Kind Lawyer Mess Other
My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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Believe Father Great Man Powerful Strong Vision
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

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