Ahmet Ertegun
Record executive
1923-07-31 – 2006-12-14
Ahmet Ertegun was a Turkish-American record executive, songwriter, and co-founder of Atlantic Records. He helped shape modern rhythm and blues and popular music through artist development and production. He was also active as a philanthropist and cultural patron.
Books by Ahmet Ertegun
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Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
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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.
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