Ahmet Ertegun
Ahmet Ertegun
Ahmet Ertegun; July 31 1923 – December 14, 2006) was a Turkish-American businessman, songwriter and philanthropist...
NationalityTurkish
ProfessionBusinessman
CountryTurkey
should-have lawyer kind
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. I should have gotten the Beatles. But one of my lawyers kind of messed up.
brother people musician
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 lifes work.
way rays felt
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
singing apollo firsts
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
path fans jazz
I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
this-life
It is a great life, this life of music,
running track magic
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,
two white soul
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
michael phil stevie
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.
belongs roll
Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
life money
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
basic develop
Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.
grew
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.