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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

There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
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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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It is a great life, this life of music.
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I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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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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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 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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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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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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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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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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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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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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