Nat King Cole Quotes

• 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

• You’ve got to change with the public’s taste.

  Nat King Cole

• There’s just one thing I can’t figure out. My income tax!

  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

• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  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

• The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.

  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

• 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

• Primarily I’m a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

  Nat King Cole

• People don’t slip. Time catches up with them.

  Nat King Cole

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

  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

• It’s not the people in the South who create racial problems – it’s the people who are governing.

  Nat King Cole

• If I could read it, I could play it.

  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 in the music business for one purpose – to make money.

  Nat King Cole

• I’m an interpreter of stories. When I perform it’s like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.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’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

Nat King Cole (29)

Birth:	17th March, 1919
Death:	15th February, 1965
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Musician, Pianist, Lyricist, Singer

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