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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

Ahmet Ertegun

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
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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Country Defeat Everybody Fundamental History Hoping Right Somebody
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
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Car First Hear Singing
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
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
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Flop Greatest Hit Seven Six Think Thinking Write Writing
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
The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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All Atlantic Group Time
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Black Imitation Music Soul Two White
There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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Blood Live
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
A singer’s biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Biography Film Music Singer Voice
Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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Delivery Feel Melody Music People Sensational
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
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
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

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