Ahmet Ertegun

I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.

I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

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.

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.