Ertegun Quotes
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Ertegun Quotes & Sayings
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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
My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
— Ahmet Ertegun
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
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
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
— 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
My first wife was a theater person.
— Ahmet Ertegun
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
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
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've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
— Ahmet Ertegun
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
It is a great life, this life of music,
— Ahmet Ertegun
