I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
Ahmet ErtegunEveryone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
Ahmet ErtegunMy father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
Ahmet ErtegunThe 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.
Ahmet Ertegun