Ahmet Ertegun famous quotes

04-18-2025

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,
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Running #Track #Magic
It is a great life, this life of music,
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#This Life
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.
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Brother #People #Musician
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Rays #Way
My first wife was a theater person.
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Wife #Firsts #Theater
The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Singing #Apollo #Firsts
The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Groups #Drifters #All Time
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 realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense. Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational. Everybody at Atlantic knew that we had a winner in this young lady, and she came through with great hits that will be remembered for many years to come. I consider Laura to be one of my best signings, and I am proud to have had such a great singer in my career in the record business. We miss her dearly.
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Brother #Years #Careers
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Greatness #African American #Littles
Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Two #White #Soul

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