Quotes Nat King Cole

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

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and ot...

Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to st...

I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same ...

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist....

I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is co...

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so ...

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

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty we...

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could ...

I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I c...

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitt...

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money....

I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach t...

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propagan...

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

It's not the people in the South who create racial problems ...

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very u...

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make ...

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

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy wit...

The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some adve...

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's...

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

The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hi...