Showing posts with label Nat King Cole Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nat King Cole Quotes. Show all posts
Nat King Cole Quotes
"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
Nat King Cole Quotes
"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
Nat King Cole Quotes
"The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?" - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"The sheriff is at the cash register, and if I don't get a hit soon, I don't know what I'll do." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"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
Nat King Cole Quotes
"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." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers." - Nat King Cole
Nat King Cole Quotes
"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
Nat King Cole Quotes
"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
Nat King Cole Quotes
"I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music." - Nat King Cole
