Ahmet Ertegun

My first wife was a theater person.

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

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

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money.