Ahmet Ertegun

My first wife was a theater person.

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

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

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.

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.

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