Ahmet Ertegun Quotes

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.

Ahmet Ertegun

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SingingMagicYouDownKnowRun

I can watch an episode of Jerry Seinfeld, and by the end, I'm just walking around my house, you know, talking like Jerry Seinfeld. 'What is that? What are you doing? Who is it? What's going' - you know, I just had that thing, when I grew up, I'd just start talking like people. You know, I always had that.

Jimmy Fallon

PeopleStartEndWalkingTalking

I come from a working-class background where I was much more likely to read socialist books and leaflets than Bronte or Dickens - neither of whom I've yet read.

Jim Crace

MoreWhereBackgroundComeBooks

I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.

Joe Bonamassa

GuitarHousePlayNeverOwnSit

We want to grow the total amount of online commerce.

John Collison

GrowWantCommerceOnlineTotal

Singing intimately is almost like thinking into a microphone, so it helps to have the song buried inside you.

Tony Bennett

SingingSongThinkingYouInside

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

Tom Glazer

WaitingPeopleSongInspireSay

At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer.

Roky Erickson

TimeLawyerPlanetHadAnother

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they can live healthy, safe, productive, creative and prosperous lives.

Dennis Weaver

LiveCreativeFeelPlaceHealthy

I don't like the water. I'm a land guy.

Dean Ambrose

WaterLandGuyLike

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Chris Van Hollen

SuccessFailureManagementYouLook

Many people don't know that New Jersey is a fertile breeding ground for writers, some of them quite renowned. And I would wager that most would be truly startled to learn that the star in the Jersey firmament is - drum roll here - Newark.

Sharon Kay Penman

PeopleLearnNewKnowDrumGround

My father was in record promotion in Los Angeles. He worked for Mercury Records, Capitol Records, and RCA Records. My parents divorced when I was about 9. In 1978, my dad moved to Nashville and opened an independent record promotion company, Mike Borchetta Promotions.

Scott Borchetta

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