Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.
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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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My first wife was a theater person.
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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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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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There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.