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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
- Belong
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock n' roll really belongs to all America. It really doesn't belong to one city.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first wife was a theater person.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what I'd really like to do? I'd like to record some white Chicago jazz.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
- Burn
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's better to burn out than to fade away... it's better to live out your days being very, very active - even if it destroys you - than to quietly... disappear.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I grew up, I began to discover a little bit about the situation of black people in America and experienced an immediate empathy with the victims of such senseless discrimination. Because although the Turks were never slaves, they were regarded as enemies within Europe because of their Muslim beliefs.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and the Hoagy Carmichaels, the Harold Arlens, Cole Porter.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020