54 Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

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

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

Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.

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.

There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder. Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded.

People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches - like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin - were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.