The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
AHMET ERTEGUNIf I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
More Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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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 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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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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The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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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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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution.
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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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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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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