All Ahmet Ertegun Quotes
- Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof. Black
- I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music. African
- I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately… Apartment
- The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters All
- The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair Apollo
- 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… Been
- It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems. Been
- Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music. Charles
- I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how… Armstrong
- My first wife was a theater person. First Wife
- Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else. Anybody
- 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… America
- 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… Cole