Quotes by Nat King Cole - Page 1

If I could read it, I could play it.
Nat King Cole / Singer
If I Could
Ifs
Play
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Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Dark
Madison
Madison Avenue
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Music
Critics
Ems
Records
Free
Buy
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
Nat King Cole / Singer
People
Slips
Slip
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Analyze This
Audience
Taste
Public
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There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole / Singer
Money
Figures
Income
Income Tax
Just One
One Thing
Taxes
Tax
Figure
Just One Thing
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Famous
African American
Artist
Jazz
African
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Making Money
Music Business
Purpose
Business Money Music
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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Music
Harmony
Helping
May
People
Between
Music May People
Bring
Through
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Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Romantic
Forever
Unforgettable
Way
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Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!
Nat King Cole / Singer
Merry Christmas
Said
Way
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Marijuana
People
Smoking
Television
Me People Television
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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Funny
Music
People
Talking
Nothing
Always People Nothing
Always
Music People Nothing
Music People Always
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Men
Meat
Vegetables
Although
Few
Primarily
Toy
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Education
Only Time
Plenty
Schooling
Segregation
Time Work Good
Education Work Time
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Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile
Nat King Cole / Singer
Just Smile
Life Is
Maybe Tomorrow
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Citizens
Entitled
Feels
Rights
American Citizen
Citizen
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The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Cash
Register
Cash Register
Sheriff
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Governing
People
Problem
South
Problems People Who
Create
Problems
Racial
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Bears
Feelings
Sight
Bear
Complex
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Sports
Horse
Horse Racing
Not Interested
Racing
Interested
Sport
Personally
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
Nat King Cole / Singer
Chance
Court
Hard Times
School
Supreme
Supreme Court
Hard Time
Integrate
Schools
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Fairy
Fairy Stories
Interpreter
Piano
Sitting
Sitting Down
Stories
Perform
Down
Telling
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For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Hip
Practically
Musicians
Starved
Trio
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Barriers
Helping
Well Known
Wonder
Breaking
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Claims
Genius
Loses
Claim
So Much Money
Value
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If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Travel
Way
West
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If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Maybe Tomorrow
Philosophy
Shining
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Advertising
Advertising Agencies
Agency
Prejudice
Tvs
Agencies
Anywhere
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
Nat King Cole / Singer
America
Court
Propaganda
Proud
Treats
Usa
Communists
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I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Work
Business
People
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I'm a musician at heart. I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Music
Heart
Real
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Fear
Entertainers
Guinea
Hurt
Pigs
Frighten
Guinea Pig
Pig
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Heart
Musician
Real
Because
Buys
Compete
Public
Singer
Sing
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I ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Jazz
Singing
Way
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Happy
Inspiring
Guy
Night
All Day
Works
Buck
Spend
Musicians
Reach
Wants
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Ease
Performers
White
Applaud
Colored
Performer
Whites
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I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Messages
Old You
Too Late
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Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Emotional
Mind
Mood
Musician
Slipping
Catch
Critic
Frame
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Father
Impossible
Scared
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When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.
Nat King Cole / Singer
Kings
Song
Years
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