Nat King Cole Quotes

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  Philosophy, Maybe Tomorrow, Shining

  Song: Smile

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• Unforgettable in every way, and forever more, that's how you'll stay.

  Nat King Cole

  Romantic, Forever, Way

  Song: Unforgettable, Album: The World Of Nat King Cole

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• Smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see that life is still worth while if you just smile

  Nat King Cole

  Maybe Tomorrow, Just Smile, Life Is

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  Fairy Stories, Piano, Sitting Down

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• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  Nat King Cole

  People, May, Helping

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  Music, Real, Heart

  "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.

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

  Nat King Cole

  People, Slips

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

  Nat King Cole

  Funny, Music, Talking

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

  Nat King Cole

  People, Problem, South

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  Inspiring, Night, Guy

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

  Nat King Cole

  Rights, Citizens, Feels

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  Too Late, Messages, Old You

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  Song, Kings, Years

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  Singing, Way, Jazz

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  Father, Impossible, Scared

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• 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

  Emotional, Mind, Musician

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

  Nat King Cole

  School, Hard Times, Chance

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

  Nat King Cole

  Segregation, Schooling, Plenty

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• Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

  Nat King Cole

  Merry Christmas, Way, Said

  Song: The Christmas Song

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• Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.

  Nat King Cole

  Dark, Madison, Madison Avenue

  "'Unforgettable' Nat King Cole now downloadable" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. February 15, 2011.

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  White, Ease, Performers

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

  Nat King Cole

  Helping, Wonder, Well Known

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

  Nat King Cole

  Play, If I Could, Ifs

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• Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

  Nat King Cole

  Music, Ems, Records

  "Nat King Cole". Book by James Haskings, 1990.

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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.

  Nat King Cole

  Usa, America, Proud

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