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A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice. — Ahmet Ertegun

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other. — Ahmet Ertegun

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey. — Ahmet Ertegun

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof. — Ahmet Ertegun

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision. — Ahmet Ertegun

After all, drunk people often need assistance, they don't know what they're doing. — Pet Torres

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully. — Ahmet Ertegun

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks. — Ahmet Ertegun

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city. — Ahmet Ertegun

It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems. — Ahmet Ertegun

All water is holy water. — Rajiv Joseph

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. — Ahmet Ertegun

Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else. — Ahmet Ertegun

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place. — Ahmet Ertegun

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. — Ahmet Ertegun

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me. — Ahmet Ertegun

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded. — Ahmet Ertegun

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter. — Ahmet Ertegun

We are generally treated based on how much or little we have, earn, or know - or seem to have, earn, or know. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Flashy people aren't everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair. — Ahmet Ertegun

My first wife was a theater person. — Ahmet Ertegun

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford. — Ahmet Ertegun

When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500. — Ahmet Ertegun

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past. — Gordon Brown

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters — Ahmet Ertegun

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music. — Ahmet Ertegun

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. — Ahmet Ertegun

When i was younger i remember once i went to bed and i was so happy that i laughed myself to sleep ... — Karl Pilkington

I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time. — Hope Solo

You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz. — Ahmet Ertegun

It is a great life, this life of music, — Ahmet Ertegun

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair — Ahmet Ertegun