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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.

— Nat King Cole British interview (1963)

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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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