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.

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.

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

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

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

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

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