nat king cole

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

Nat King Cole was a really big influence....

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

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

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...

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

You've got to change with the public's taste....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways,...

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

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

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

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools....

In this country, we do a lot of hotel venues, and we do Fair...

My main influences have always been the classic jazz players...

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

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

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

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

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the c...

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

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

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was l...

Two weeks before the attack on the USS Cole and then again t...

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself...

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I hav...

I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much ti...

Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanh...

Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called B...

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the P...

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous ki...

Martin Luther King took us to the mountain top: I want to ta...

A player is said to have the opposition when he can place hi...

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce ...

The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hass...

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his au...

Were I not a king, I would be a university man....

Be cautious of playing your Queen in front of your King and ...

The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were t...