Ahmet Ertegun Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.”

“You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.”

“America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My first wife was a theater person.”

“It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.”

“Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.”

“I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.”