Nat King Cole Quotes

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

Education, Work, Time

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

Music, Mind, Emotional

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

Free, Records, Critics

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

Time, Slip, Catches

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.
Nat King Cole

Death, Nothing, Play

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

Tell, Smoking, Stop

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

Same, American, Rights

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

Famous, American, Artist

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

Movies, Feeling, Stand

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

Money, Business, Genius

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

Music, May, Through

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

Help, Down, Pretty

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, Thought, Keep

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

Heart, Real, Public

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

Down, Stories, Piano

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

Music, Money, Business

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

Happy, Him, Night

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

America, Put, Proud

If I could read it, I could play 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

Problems, Create, South

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

Once, Few, While

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

Fear, Found, Prejudice

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

Horse, Interested, Racing

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

Music, Nothing, Talking

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

Soon, Hit, Cash

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: March 17, 1919

Died: February 15, 1965

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