Nat King Cole Quotes
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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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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.
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If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.
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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.
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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.
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Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.
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The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?
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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.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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I got the message. All of us get the message, sooner or later. If you get it before it's too late or before you're too old, you'll pull through all right.
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Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!
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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.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
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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.
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When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things.
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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
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Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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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.
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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.
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Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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