Top 25 Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

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These are some quotes by Turkish author Ahmet Ertegun Businessman.

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 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.

Ahmet Ertegun

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.

Ahmet Ertegun

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

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

Ahmet Ertegun

As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. Because although the Turks were never slaves, they were regarded as enemies within Europe because of their Muslim beliefs.

Ahmet Ertegun

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's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to Phil Collins.

Ahmet Ertegun

I don't use the computer. But my secretary does. I want to take some computer courses because I'm interested in some of the access to some of the illegal things on the Internet. I'm just kidding.

I don't use the computer. But my secretary does. I want to take some computer courses because I'm interested in some of the access to some of the illegal things on the Internet. I'm just kidding.

Ahmet Ertegun

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

Ahmet Ertegun

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

Ahmet Ertegun

My first wife was a theater person.

My first wife was a theater person.

Ahmet Ertegun

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

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

Ahmet Ertegun

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