Nat King Cole 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 ColeSource : "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.
-
“People don't slip. Time catches up with them.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“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 -
-
“Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!”
-- Nat King ColeSource : Song: The Christmas Song
-
“I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!”
-- Nat King Cole -
-
“I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile”
-- Nat King Cole -
“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 -
“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 -
-
“Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.”
-- Nat King ColeSource : Song: Unforgettable, Album: The World Of Nat King Cole
-
“I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“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 -
-
“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 -
“I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.”
-- Nat King ColeSource : Song: Smile
-
-
“Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.”
-- Nat King Cole -
-
“Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.”
-- Nat King ColeSource : "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.
-
“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 -
“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 -
“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 -
-
“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 -
“I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.”
-- Nat King Cole -
“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 -
“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 -
-
“Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.”
-- Nat King ColeSource : "'Unforgettable' Nat King Cole now downloadable" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. February 15, 2011.
You may also like:
-
Billie Holiday
Singer -
Bing Crosby
Singer -
Count Basie
Jazz Pianist -
Dean Martin
Singer -
Dizzy Gillespie
Bandleader -
Doris Day
Actress -
Duke Ellington
Composer -
Eartha Kitt
Singer -
Ella Fitzgerald
Vocalist -
Frank Sinatra
Singer -
Harry Belafonte
Singer -
Johnny Mathis
Singer -
Louis Armstrong
Trumpeter -
Natalie Cole
Singer-songwriter -
Peggy Lee
Singer -
Perry Como
Singer -
Ray Charles
Singer-songwriter -
Sam Cooke
Singer-songwriter -
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Entertainer -
Tony Bennett
Painter