Nat King Quotes
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Nat King Quotes & Sayings
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I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King ... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.
— Angus Young
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
— Nat King Cole
My main influences have always been the classic jazz players who sang, like Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole and Jack Teagarden.
— Mose Allison
The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
— Nat King Cole
Ruth does love Jesus, same way she loves Lincoln, Robin Hood, Martin Luther King, and Nat. Handsome men who fight for justice.
— Samantha Hunt
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
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 ... started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
— Nat King Cole
Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
— Nat King Cole
I respected Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra. Those were my heroes, and they were 10 years older than I was.
— Tony Bennett
If I could read it, I could play it.
— 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
It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
— Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
— Bryan White
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
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
— Nat King Cole
I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.
— Diahann Carroll
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'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'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
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
— Nat King Cole
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
— Nat King Cole
You've got to change with the public's taste.
— Nat King Cole
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
— 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
The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
— Nat King Cole
People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
— Nat King Cole
I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.
— Natalie Cole
I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.
— George Clinton
There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!
— Nat King Cole
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
I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.
— Leah LaBelle
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
