Words matter. These are the best Ahmet Ertegun Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don’t you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
Rock n’ roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn’t belong to one city.
My first wife was a theater person.
The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his life’s work.
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won’t even remember me.
Flashy people aren’t everything, you know. Even when they have frizzled hair.
I’ve lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there’s very little I can’t afford.
My father was in Ataturk’s closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. Because although the Turks were never slaves, they were regarded as enemies within Europe because of their Muslim beliefs.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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.
You know what I’d really like to do? I’d like to record some white Chicago jazz.
It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
