Nat King Cole Quotes
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Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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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'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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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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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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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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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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I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
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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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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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I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.
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A buzzard took the monkey for a ride in the airThe monkey thought that everything was on the squareThe buzzard tried to throw the monkey off his backBut the monkey grabbed his neck and said - 'Now listen, Jack...' 'Straighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightStraighten up and fly rightCool down, papa, don't you blow your top.'
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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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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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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 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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The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
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If I could read it, I could play 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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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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There's just one thing I can't figure out. My income tax!