Quotes from Nat King Cole

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

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.

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

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer.

Primarily I'm a meat man, although once in a while I toy with a few vegetables.

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.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

Although it's been said many times, many ways...Merry Christmas to you!

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.

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.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

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.

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.

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