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

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

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

The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.

I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair