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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."

— Nat King Cole

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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)

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