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Nat King Cole
American
Musician
About the author
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,
American
Musician
#Day
#Trying
#Night
#Musicians
Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#People
#Television
#Smoking
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#People
#Nothing
#Death
#Years
#Play
#Musicians
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#American
#Rights
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#American
#Jazz
#Famous
#Artist
#African
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,
American
Musician
#Feeling
#Movies
#Sight
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,
American
Musician
#Being
#Money
#Value
#Business
#Genius
I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#People
#Harmony
#May
#Music
I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Wonder
#Pretty
#Help
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,
American
Musician
#Hurt
#Thought
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,
American
Musician
#Public
#Heart
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Purpose
#Money
#Music
#Business
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,
American
Musician
#America
#Court
#Propaganda
If I could read it, I could play it.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Play
The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Time
#Chance
#Court
#Audiences
#Schools
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#People
#Problems
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,
American
Musician
#Respect
You've got to change with the public's taste.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Public
#Change
#Taste
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,
American
Musician
The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#People
#Nothing
#Music
#Talking
The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Horses
#Racing
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,
American
Musician
#Fear
#Advertising
#Prejudice
Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Man
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Time
#People
Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Time
#Work
#Will
#Education
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,
American
Musician
#Will
#May
#Mind
#Music
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
Nat King Cole,
American
Musician
#Income