Nat King Cole famous quotes

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

#Music #Real #Heart

People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
-- Nat King Cole

#People

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
-- Nat King Cole

#Piano #Stories #Sitting Down

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

#Father #Scared #Impossible

Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!
-- Nat King Cole

#Merry Christmas #Way #Said

I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
-- Nat King Cole

#People #May #Helping

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
-- Nat King Cole

#Segregation #Plenty #Schooling

There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
-- Nat King Cole

#Income #Figures #Taxes

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
-- Nat King Cole

#Purpose #Making Money #Music Business

Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile
-- Nat King Cole

#Just Smile #Tomorrow #Life Is

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

#Inspiring #Night #Guy

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

#People #Records #Kind

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
-- Nat King Cole

#People #Smoking #Television

Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.
-- Nat King Cole

#Romantic #Forever #Way

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
-- Nat King Cole

#Rights #Citizens #Feels

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

#Sight #Feelings #Bears

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

#Genius #Claims #Values

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
-- Nat King Cole

#Helping #Wonder #Well Known

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
-- Nat King Cole

#Sports #Horse #Racing

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

#Philosophy #Shining #Sorrow

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
-- Nat King Cole

#Men #Vegetables #Toys

The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
-- Nat King Cole

#Music #Talking #People

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
-- Nat King Cole

#People #Problem

If I could read it, I could play it.
-- Nat King Cole

#Play

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
-- Nat King Cole

#Music #Records #Ems

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

#Emotional #Mind #May

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

#Usa #America #Proud

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

#Messages #Too Late

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

#Travel #Way #West

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
-- Nat King Cole

#Artist #African American #Jazz

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

#Agency #Prejudice #Tvs

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

#Hurt #Pigs #Guinea

Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
-- Nat King Cole

#Dark #Madison Avenue #Madison