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

Theres two kinds of music: black soul music, and the white imitation thereof.

It is a great life, this life of music.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

There's been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.

The main thing is that Ataturk saw the desperate condition of the countries that had not had an industrial revolution. Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.