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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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