Quotes from Ahmet Ertegun

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

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.

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

Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock-and-roll sound than anybody else.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

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