There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
AHMET ERTEGUNLaura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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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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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 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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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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If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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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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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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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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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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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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