Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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If you are attempting to study American history, and you don't understand the force of white supremacy, you fundamentally misunderstand America.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.
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Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
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I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.
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Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
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My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats.
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There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.
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I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
