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Nat King Cole Quotes

1919–1965 United States

Nat "King" Cole (born Nathaniel Adams Coles; 17 March 1919 – 15 February 1965) was an American singer, jazz pianist and actor.

United States
Actors
Episcopalians
Guitarists
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Also known as: Cole, Nat "King"

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Straighten up and fly right
Straighten up and fly right
Cool down, papa, don't you blow your top.

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

Nat King Cole (1990)

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.

Spoken in VOA interview (1956)

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 (1990)

Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark.

Comment on why his hit NBC TV show couldn't get a national sponsor (1956)

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

British interview (1963)

«There's just one thing I can't understand. My income tax!”».

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."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nat King Cole (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.