Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
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The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. 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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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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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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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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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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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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It is a great life, this life of music.
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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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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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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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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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A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.
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Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.
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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.