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

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.

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

I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.

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.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

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