Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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It is a great life, this life of music.
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.
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If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
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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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The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters
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There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.
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Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.
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America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.
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A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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I don't use the computer. But my secretary does. I want to take some computer courses because I'm interested in some of the access to some of the illegal things on the Internet. I'm just kidding.
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Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
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I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.